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Subject Overview

Pharmacy has evolved over the years to where pharmacists now also utilise their skills for immunisations, health checks and monitoring. They deliver enhanced services in collaboration with other members of healthcare teams.
Modern pharmacy education extends beyond traditional pharmacy education by shifting the focus from just drug chemistry and delivery to encompass how patients use medicines and how pharmacists can optimise patient care through interaction with other health professionals.
Pharmacy can be studied at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. You first need to complete your undergraduate study and then you are able to progress to postgraduate study, which further expands your career opportunities.

Knowledge and Skills

The Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences is New Zealand’s leading provider of tertiary education in the health field and the country’s largest centre for medical and biomedical research.

The School of Pharmacy is one of two pharmacy schools in New Zealand.

Research in the school is organised into clusters and led by staff who are internationally recognised experts and highly regarded researchers. We are experienced at working at the cutting-edge of research, and our postgraduate programmes are innovative and designed to ensure our graduates remain in high demand, both here and overseas.

Our research is often performed in collaboration with industry, local healthcare providers and other academic disciplines within and beyond the University, both nationally and internationally.


Conduct your PhD research in Pharmacy with us. We undertake research across clusters: 

  • Pharmacy policy, law, ethics and the pharmacy profession
  • Pharmacy health service delivery
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and Health Outcomes Research
  • Formulation and drug delivery for various applications
  • Improving paediatric medicines, drug delivery technologies and medicine use
  • Investigating experience and developing treatments for spinal cord injury
  • Pharmacy education and curriculum development
  • Safety and efficacy of herbal medicines and other natural health products
  • Neuropsychopharmacology and substance use
  • Technology and digital innovations in health

Potential Careers

Pharmacists work in a range of industries related to the manufacture, prescription and provision of medicines:

  • Government agencies: regulating the quality and availability of drugs
  • Pharmaceutical companies: researching and trialling new compounds
  • Community and hospital pharmacists liaise with the public and other health professionals on the safe and effective use of medicines


Internationally, the role pharmacists can play in patient care is rapidly expanding and New Zealand is at the forefront of this. Legislation has now been passed that allows pharmacists to prescribe, and the numbers of New Zealand pharmacists registered to prescribe is steadily growing.

Jobs related to Pharmacy

  • Pharmacist
  • Prescriber
  • Research

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