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Increasing Global Access to Medicines Roivant Sciences and Roivant Social Ventures (RSV) have partnered to host the Access to Medicines Internship and Fellowship Program, providing real-world drug development experience to talented PharmD students. This summer Magdalene Mallory is serving as an RSV Global Access Fellow, where she is using her grant award to volunteer at Goodlife Access and Goodlife Pharmacy Africa in Rwanda, and is leading initiatives to: - Conduct community healthcare clinic days that are creating access to otherwise unavailable blood pressure and blood glucose screenings for hundreds of community members in Kigali. - Create patient materials for post-screening healthcare education that provide next steps for building better health. - Standardize screening techniques for providers to promote sterile practice, patient privacy, and continuity of care. - Assist in the opening of new pharmacies. - Create and present a proposal on the creation of non-communicable disease screening/consultation rooms, including, but not limited to scheduling, building, budget, staffing requirements, and educational marketing to community members. - Contribute to the designing and setting up of patient consultation rooms in new pharmacies. We sat down with Magdalene to learn more about what drives her work and how her fellowship in Rwanda will impact her career development. Magdalene grew up in a small town in Texas where she noticed early on that accessing healthcare created a difficult challenge within her community. From an early age she began volunteering at Center of Hope alongside her parents, where she witnessed firsthand the barriers individuals face accessing basic supplies and healthcare services. Magdalene shared, "From the very beginning I have made it my personal mission to help increase access and trust for underserved patients." This passion to build patient-centered access is deeply rooted in personal experience for Magdalene. Growing up she remembers watching her mother travel three to four hours to see physicians that she felt she could trust to provide proper care for herself and her family. Magdalene became hyper aware of and educated on the mistrust of our medical system that marginalized communities have developed over time. Magdalene's Global Access Fellowship has created the opportunity for her to put the critical skillsets she has developed through her PharmD program directly into action. "The work we are doing through RSV and Goodlife in Kigali (Rwanda) is merging my passion for treating underserved patients with my interests in both clinical and industry work. I'm so excited to already be witnessing just how impactful my work can be to the communities that I am dedicated to serving!" Read Madgalene's full spotlight here: https://lnkd.in/gBsjjp7b #drugdevelopment #biopharma #globalimpact UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Goodlife Rwanda