Letter to the Editor: Pharmacy Education in Africa

authors:

avatar Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III ORCID 1 , 2 , avatar Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi ORCID 3 , avatar Alumuku Iordepuun Micheal ORCID 4 , avatar Nelson Ashinedu Ukor ORCID 5 , *

Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
School of Medicine, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria
International Journal of Health and Life Sciences: Vol.5, issue 1; e89009
published online: January 21, 2019
article type: Letter
received: January 10, 2019
accepted: January 19, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5812/ijhls.89009

how to cite: Lucero-Prisno III D E, Adebisi Y A, Micheal A I, Ukor N A. Letter to the Editor: Pharmacy Education in Africa. J Health Rep Technol. 2019;5(1):e89009. https://doi.org/10.5812/ijhls.89009.

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Professor Adekunle Adeyomi
2019-01-24 01:27:52
Nice article. Weldone

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