world smart medication day

World Smart Medication Day (WSMD) is an annual online initiative organised by IUPHAR to promote safe and effective medication use and advance clinical pharmacology worldwide. Each year the event features a global webinar and a student poster competition focused on a specific theme.

Registration for the World Smart Medication Day 2026 webinar will open soon.

The participation link will be published on this page ahead of the event on May 7th 2026.

Opportunities for your society to participate include:

1. International Student Poster Competition on the theme, ‘Race, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Influences on Clinical Pharmacology’.
There are three categories of poster entries:
• General posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pre-graduate students.
• Research posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pre- and post-graduate students.
• International collaborative posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pre- and post-graduate students for collaborations between students who are each affiliated with different member societies.

Please disseminate the call for posters through your membership several times between now and March 2026 to capture a wide range of student availability. Please help link students with those of international colleagues for the International Collaborative Poster category. A form to facilitate international student contacts will soon be available on the IUPHAR WSMD 2026 website.

Each society should organise local judging to select one winner per category.

Please submit your society’s nominated winners to IUPHAR by April 6th 2026.

Submit your society's nominated winners

All posters received will be judged for originality, relevance, message and universality by the IUPHAR Executive Committee and members of the IUPHAR Medical and Clinical Pharmacology Committee, who will nominate the overall winners for each category.

Winners will be invited to present at the World Smart Medication Day webinar on May 7, 2026. Six prizes will be awarded by IUPHAR, two prizes in each category.

2. Disseminate information on the IUPHAR World Smart Medication Day webinar on May 7th 2026. International pharmacologists and experts will provide education and research on the theme, ‘Race, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Influences on Clinical Pharmacology’. This free event is open to your members and their networks.
3. Organise local seminars and other events to celebrate and promote clinical and translational pharmacology on May 7th 2026.