Who We Are

1. 1

   To provide for the conduct of the qualifying examinations for membership of the Society or for registration as a pharmacist, and to prescribe or approve courses of study for those examinations. Examinations

2. 2

   To maintain and publish a register of pharmacists.

3. 3

   To supervise and regulate the engagement, training and transfer of pharmacy students, and to make provision for the registration of students. Student registration

4. 4

   To specify the class of persons who shall have the right to train pharmacy students, and the circumstances in which any person of that class may be deprived of that right.

5. 5

   To maintain a library of books and periodicals relating to pharmacy and allied subjects, and to encourage the publication of such books.

6. 6

   To encourage research in pharmacy and chemistry, and generally to secure the well-being and advancement of the profession of pharmacy.

To carry out these functions the Council may make bylaws regulating the activities of the Society, and enact a code of conduct which, once approved by a general meeting, binds every member. It may also run a scheme to aid distressed pharmacy students, members or former members of the Society, and their widows or orphans.

General meeting

The members of the Society. The code of conduct enacted by the Council binds every member once a general meeting has approved it.

The Council

The President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, four elected Council members and four ministerial appointees. It secures the highest practicable standards in the practice of pharmacy, and administers and manages the Society.

Standing committees

Ten committees of the Council, among them Education and Professional Development, Internship, Standards and Compliance, Examinations, and Ethics.

Secretariat

The Society's office at Pharmacy House, Kyambogo, which runs its day-to-day administration and handles members' and the public's enquiries. It reports to the Secretary of the Council. Contact the secretariat

Founded in 1971 under the Pharmacy and Drugs Act of 1970, the Society celebrated 50 years in 2021. Meet the presidents who have led it, and the milestones along the way.