The two professors along with other colleagues started writing the chapter almost two years ago.

The book offers a detailed review of the history and development of pharmacy practice in developing countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. This book focuses on each country’s strengths and achievements, as well as areas of weakness, barriers to improvement and challenges. It sets out to establish a baseline for best practices, taking various factors into account and offering solutions and opportunities for the future.

The book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, practicing pharmacists, policy makers, and students involved in pharmacy practice worldwide as it provides lessons learned on a global scale and seeks to advance the pharmacy profession.

Professor Maher Natsheh, Acting President of An-Najah thanked An-Najah staff for achieving this success and mentioned that An-Najah was the first Palestinian university to establish the Faculty of Pharmacy and to adopt the doctor of pharmacy programme.

Notes:

• Elsevier is a global business, headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. It is part of RELX Group, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries. It helps scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives, and executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.
• The book was supervised and edited by Prof. Albert Wertheimer, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics at Temple University, United States; Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim, Professor of Pharmaceutical Practices at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia and Prof. Mohammad Izham, Professor of Social and Administrative Pharmacy at Qatar University, Doha.