Dr. Sham Moodley

Sham Moodley is a community pharmacist in the Durban South Africa. His academic background includes BSc (Pharmacology) from University College Dublin Ireland), BPharm (UKZN), a Postgraduate Diploma (HIV/AIDS) from Stellenbosh University, a Masters Cum Laude from Stellenbosh University and a
PhD at UKZN.

Recognised as the South African Pharmacy Council’s National Pharmacist of the Year in 2008,
Community Pharmacist of the Year 2019, Fellow of the PSSA in 2022 and Fellowship of the
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) in 2024.

Served as elected member on the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC) 2013-2018
Current Elected to serve on SAPC – 2024-2028

Current:
Joint Chair of the Pharmacy Stakeholders Forum (PSF)- Pricing Regulations.
Member of the Board of Directors (ICPA)
Chair of NHI Pharmacy Stakeholders Consultative Forum Task Team
Chair- Pharmacy First Working Group
Chair- Codeine Care Initiative (CCI)
Pharmacy Lead on COVID 19 Pandemic Task Team at B4SA 2020
Pharmacy Lead on COVID 19 Vaccine Task Team at B4SA 2021
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Executive (Oct 2022-Sept 2026)
Honorary research fellow School of Health Science UKZN – Dec 2020-Nov 2025
Ministerial Task Team on Medicine Availability 2022-2024
Medicines To Africa (Coordinator)

Sham regards himself as a dedicated healthcare professional with a passion for patient care and
believes that pharmacy has a major role to play. He is involved in a number of publications and
projects focused on clinical outcomes at a practice level.