Monitoring, providing strategic guidance, offering advisory services, theorizing, and conducting foresight regarding the national pharmaceutical system and its challenges.

Achieving scientific and cultural autonomy in the national pharmaceutical system.

Advancing sciences and technologies within the national pharmaceutical system.

Reinforcing a research ethos to attain the most effective, evidence-based, and cutting-edge findings and innovations in pharmaceutical sciences and modern pharmaceutical technologies.

Facilitating the public’s attainment of the highest possible level of access to necessary medicines with appropriate affordability, quality, and availability.

Promoting rational prescribing and medicine-use practices among healthcare professionals and the general public.

Safeguarding Islamic and Iranian cultural and civilizational heritage in pharmaceutical sciences through the sustainable use of natural resources.

Promoting and strengthening ethical principles across all domains of pharmaceutical sciences.

Promoting and expanding applied research aimed at development and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry to achieve relative national self-sufficiency.

Duties of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Group

Working toward the realization of the country’s vision in the field of pharmaceutical sciences.

Contributing to the implementation of the National Comprehensive Scientific Plan in pharmaceutical sciences.

Monitoring and conducting macro-level assessments of the national pharmaceutical system, analyzing its challenges, and providing practical, clinical, and service-oriented recommendations.

Critiquing current policies and programs in the national pharmaceutical system and proposing recommendations to the relevant authorities and institutions.

Facilitating knowledge translation in pharmaceutical sciences and advanced technologies, and in related care and service delivery areas, through collective initiatives and by mobilizing support and incentives for scholars, researchers, elites, and experts in pharmaceutical sciences.

Proposing scientific hypotheses and theoretical frameworks, expanding the frontiers of knowledge, and striving to elevate the country’s scientific and research capacity while preserving scientific and cultural autonomy and aligning with the National Comprehensive Scientific Plan for the pharmaceutical system.

Collaborating and proposing measures to promote culture and ethics within pharmacy practice.

Strengthening and promoting public health culture with respect to rational prescribing and medicine use among medical professionals and the broader society.

Providing fundamental scientific and research advisory services in pharmaceutical matters upon request.

Studying other countries’ experiences in acquiring and developing knowledge and technologies in pharmaceutical sciences, and reviewing the latest scientific findings and modalities for their application given the country’s circumstances and resources.

Reviewing and proposing standards to enhance the scientific quality of national seminars, conferences, and congresses in pharmaceutical sciences, and evaluating such events.

Supporting the organization of scientific conferences focused on the latest developments in pharmaceutical sciences.

Participating in the dissemination and communication of information and knowledge in pharmaceutical sciences.

Proposing recognition and incentives for outstanding contributors in pharmaceutical sciences and related fields, including recommendations for awards, prizes, and scientific honors for distinguished scholars, researchers, and institutions.

Proposing and facilitating the allocation of funding and research resources to support the activities of eminent pharmaceutical scientists.

Empowering and leveraging the capacities of professional and scientific pharmaceutical associations, and related societies, and encouraging their participation in policymaking and planning within the national pharmaceutical system.

Assessing and analyzing the scientific, technical, educational, and research status of pharmaceutical sciences and submitting recommendations to the relevant authorities for its enhancement and development.