Meet the CPA Fellowship Class of 2025!
CPA has presented four awards in recognition of services to pharmacy in the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) is delighted to have awarded three CPA Fellowships and one posthumous Special Citation as part of our 2025 Fellowship Awards.
The award recipients were announced at the 2025 CPA Council Meeting yesterday (5th November), and were presented with their certificates by Prof. Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Lead Pharmacist (Antimicrobial Resistance) at the UK Health Security Agency and Chair of the CPA Panel of Fellows.
All recipients of the awards were nominated by their peers in recognition of their outstanding services to pharmacy in the Commonwealth and beyond. We were fortunate to receive many excellent nominations for the awards, and we are grateful to everybody who submitted a nomination for the Panel’s consideration.
CPA Fellowship
Mary Anne Ciappara
Council Member, Malta Chamber of Pharmacists
Immediate Past President, CPA
Mary Anne graduated in Pharmacy in 1979 and earned an MPhil from the University of Malta in 1999. She is the Immediate Past President and and an ex-officio Trustee of the CPA, having served as President from 2022–24 and been active with the organisation since 1988. A long-standing Council member of the Malta Chamber of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Council, Mary Anne has also lectured in Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Ethics and currently practices as a community pharmacist.
Junia Forde-Walcott
President, Pharmaceutical Society of Trinidad and Tobago
Regional Representative, Caribbean and Americas, CPA
Junia is a pharmacist with over 40 years’ public-sector experience, including 20 years across hospitals and rural clinics and 20 years with the national regulatory authority, where she rose to the position of Principal Pharmacist. She has also taught in the National Pharmacy Assistant and Nursing programmes and, since retiring, has led improvements in prison health services. A long-standing leader of the Pharmaceutical Society of Trinidad & Tobago, Junia has served as President, Secretary and as a committee member, and is CPA Regional Assembly representative for the Caribbean and the Americas.
Manjiri Gharat
FIP India Envoy, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
Vice-President, FIP South East Asian Region Pharmaceutical (SEARPharm) Forum
Principal, Prin. K. M. Kundnani Pharmacy Polytechnic
Manjiri is Principal of Prin. K. M. Kundnani Pharmacy Polytechnic, India, as well as Vice-President of the FIP SEARPharm Forum and an FIP India Envoy. She was formerly Vice-President of FIP and Co-Chair of its Antimicrobial Resistance Commission, as well as Vice-President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association. With over 28 years of experience across education, community pharmacy and public health, Manjiri champions consumer medicine education and led a public–private partnership engaging pharmacists in India’s tuberculosis programme. Her other awards include an FIP Fellowship and the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations Ishidate Award.
Special Citation
Eric Zammit
1945-2003
Eric was a Maltese community pharmacist and an early CPA advocate. He joined CPA’s first European Region meeting in 1970, represented Malta at CPA Council meetings from 1972–95, and helped host Executive Committee meetings in Malta in 1978 and 1989. Nationally, Eric served as Secretary of the Malta Union of Pharmacists, President of the Malta Chamber of Pharmacists (1977–79), member of the Pharmacy Board (1971-2003), and President of the General Retailers and Traders Union Pharmacy Owners section – advancing regulation, equitable access, and professional standards.
