With the launch of the five-year capital campaign in 2024, the AIHP will build a significantly larger foundation for the future. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether documents, artifacts, or oral histories, the AIHP is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of pharmacy. Preservation and collection, as well as outreach, are fundamental to AIHP. This helps ensure that the advancements and challenges of the past are not forgotten and can inform future progress. The AIHP serves as a unique collector and publisher of pharmacy information. AIHP holds a world-leading historical archive and has digitzed rare items. It provides historical context that can enhance the understanding of modern pharmacy and pharmaceutical advancements for students, researchers, and professionals. By documenting and sharing the history of pharmacy through media and public programming, the AIHP increases awareness of the profession’s contributions to healthcare. Such efforts, using multiple media platforms and tools, will inspire more trust and respect for pharmacists in the community. AIHP has always been dedicated to research and knowledge generation that is useful. Historical insights, from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and pharmacist historians, can drive current and future innovations in pharmacy and allied health fields. Understanding past successes and failures helps shape more effective and safer medication practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn an era of change for both pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, this campaign represents renewal and growth to better collect and tell the histories about pharmacy and healthcare that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n To ensure this bright future, the AIHP is seeking gifts in the following priority areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n AIHP’s KEY PRIORITIES, 2025-2029<\/strong>
Preserving & Expanding Collections<\/em>
Contributions would facilitate the use of a dedicated state-of-the-art space to house and preserve the AIHP\u2019s rare books, library, archives, and artifacts, and to host researchers to use these materials comfortably. Contributions here will support our facilities and digital archive, and in turn enable the best stewardship of our collections as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n