Pharmacy teams should be integral to humanitarian organisations

Despite a rise in human-made and natural disasters, the humanitarian sector is the road less travelled for the pharmacy workforce^​1–4​. Humanitarian workers are exposed to multiple exceptional factors, such as unstable environments, neglected diseases and unfamiliar living conditions^​4​. It is a vastly different environment to hospital or community sectors in developed countries, yet a fundamental common aim links them — to provide the best possible quality of care to those in need^​1–4​.