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Environmental Sustainability and Pharmacy

Explore practical strategies pharmacy professionals can use to reduce environmental impacts, address pharmaceutical pollution and support more sustainable pharmacy practices.

Course fee Free training
Delivery format Online and self-paced
Continuing education 1.0 CEU
Intended audience Pharmacy professionals
Course access
FREE
No payment required
Free enrollment through the QUESS 360 learning platform
Sustainable pharmacy practice
Environmental Sustainability and Pharmacy Training
Continuing education 1.0 CEU
No payment required

Course objectives

What you will learn

This training focuses on actionable environmental strategies that can be introduced within pharmacy practice.

Course focus

Help pharmacy professionals identify environmental challenges and translate sustainability knowledge into realistic pharmacy actions.

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Objective one

Identify strategies that reduce greenhouse gas impacts

Examine how pharmacy services, products and operational decisions may contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pressures.

Participants will explore

  • Environmental impacts connected to pharmacy practice
  • Sources of greenhouse gas emissions
  • Opportunities for meaningful reductions
Learner outcome

Recognize where pharmacy teams can begin reducing environmental impacts.

Identify Recognize the environmental challenge
Identify

Course specifications

Free online training

This free online independent-study program helps pharmacy professionals explore practical approaches to environmental sustainability.

Activity type

Knowledge-based

Designed to build knowledge and awareness through independent study.

Delivery format

Online independent study

Complete the program online through the QUESS LMS platform.

Intended audience

Pharmacy professionals

For pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy administrators.

Area of practice

All pharmacy practice

Applicable across community, hospital and other pharmacy environments.

Continuing education

1.0 CEU

Continuing-education recognition after successful completion.

Course dates

November 2025–November 2026

Course availability is subject to the listed accreditation period.

CCCEP program number: 1401-2025-4045-I-Z

Released: November 6, 2025
Expires: November 6, 2026

Accreditation dates and program information should be reviewed and updated whenever the course is renewed or modified.

Course faculty

Meet the course faculty

Learn from a pharmacy professional whose work connects clinical practice, environmental sustainability and global health.

Course faculty
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Faculty portrait Dr. Shellyza Sajwani
Area of expertise Climate-conscious pharmacy practice

Faculty biography

Dr. Shellyza Sajwani

Pharmacist specializing in oncology, climate change and global health

Dr. Shellyza Sajwani is a pharmacist specializing in oncology, climate change and global health. She serves as national co-chair of the Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment and as an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa.

As co-founder of Climaceutics Health Solutions, she supports pharmacies in improving environmental sustainability and strengthening climate resilience. She also works at the Ottawa Hospital as a clinical pharmacist.

Clinical pharmacy

Clinical pharmacist at the Ottawa Hospital

Climate and global health

Specializes in climate change, oncology and global health

Pharmacy education

Adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa

Sustainability leadership

National co-chair of the Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment

Course perspective

Connecting environmental awareness with practical, measurable action in pharmacy practice.

Ready to begin?

Turn sustainability knowledge into practical pharmacy action

Enroll in this free online course and explore realistic strategies for reducing environmental impacts within pharmacy practice.

  • Free online enrollment
  • 1.0 continuing education unit
  • Self-paced independent study
Immediate online access

Course access

FREE
Free enrollment through the QUESS 360 learning platform