In 2000, Bukhari started her professional career as a pharmacy manager at Westbury Chemist in
Streatham,
UK. After a year, she moved to work for
Bart's and the London NHS Trust,
London as a clinical pharmacist for the surgical and musculoskeletal directorate. In 2003, she began to work in academia at
University College London (UCL) as an academic facilitator, teaching fellow, and pre-registration coordinator; her area of research is
pharmacy and
leadership.[22] Since 2003, she has published various titles in the
Pharmaceutical Press and
BMC Series.[23] Later in 2014, she became a senior teaching fellow in the same university.[4] She had also joined the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain for a year. In 2015, Bukhari was awarded the status of
Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) for her excellence and contributions towards the profession of pharmacy.[24] In the same year, she co-hosted an event at
RPS to talk about women in a leadership role.[25] In 2016, she was invited by the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC) to speak about the UK pharmaceutical practices.[26][27] Since 2017, Bukhari has also been an advisor to the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association and
British Islamic Medical Association.[28][29] In addition, she has been mentoring students globally.[12][3] Later in the year 2017, she became the youngest female, an Asian
Muslim and a
British Pakistani to be elected as the board member at
English National Pharmacy Board, UK.[19][20][24] In the same year, she began to serve as an ambassador for the Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE); an initiative taken by the support of the
Government of Pakistan to promote girls' education across the country.[11] In 2018, she was appointed to be the Principal Teaching Fellow at
UCL School of Pharmacy.[4] In the same year, she participated in Pharmaceutical Care Conference and represented
UCL on the invitation by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in
Oman.[30][31] In 2019, she became the global lead of
gender equity at the
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), a trustee of Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE) and stepped down from the responsibilities of the
National Pharmacy Board, UK.[32] In the same year, she also launched National Alliance for Women in Pharmacy (NAWP) under
Pakistan Pharmacists Association (PPA) to support opportunities for female pharmacists across
Pakistan.[33] In 2019, She has received the honor to represent the
Pakistani community in an event arranged by the
Royal Household of the United Kingdom at Aga Khan Centre in
London.[34][35] In the same year, she was invited by
Hamdard University Islamabad Campus and other leading academic institutes to multiple events as a guest speaker to share her experience, promote
gender equity, and
leadership roles in the
pharmaceutical industry of
Pakistan.[36][37][1] In 2020, she joined Indus Health Network UK as an executive committee member and became part of the charitable programs conducted by the hospital.[13] Also, she joined doctHERs as the Chief Pharmacist; a tech-enabled pharmacy and healthcare consultancy service in Pakistan for underserved patients.[38][39] In 2021, she started to work as the director of Equity Pakistan, an initiative that can address the lack of gender diversity in the pharmaceutical industry and perform necessary activities to create a gender balance in the field. It is launched under the collaboration of
University College London (UCL) and
Hamdard University Islamabad Campus in
Islamabad,
Pakistan.[14]
Philanthropy
Bukhari has been working for charitable programs, reducing the gender gap, and other philanthropy projects. The prominent projects are following:
In 2017, she began to serve as a trustee and an ambassador for the Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE) to reduce the gender gap and increase access to education for all females across
Pakistan.[10][40][41]
In 2019, while serving as an ambassador for the Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE), she also became its trustee to support female education across Pakistan.[40][41]
In 2019, she launched the National Alliance for Women in Pharmacy (NAWP) under
Pakistan Pharmacists Association (PPA) to provide opportunities for females pharmacists in the health industry across Pakistan.[33][8][9]
In 2020, she joined Indus Health Network UK as an executive committee member to advocate and raise funds for the charity programs of the hospital.[12]
In 2020, she began to work as the chief pharmacist at doctHERs; a
telemedicine company connecting home-based and underutilized female healthcare workers to serve low-income patients remotely through technology.[39] Under Bukhari's leadership role, they have launched projects in the rural areas of Pakistan where the community health workers, like Guddi Bajis, are selling the medicines to underserved patients under the supervision of telehealthcare workers of doctHERs.[42][43][44]
In 2021, she became the Director of Equity Pakistan; a gender equity hub created to address the issues related to gender inequities in the pharmaceutical workforce of Pakistan.[14]
Media coverage
Bukhari has been invited by the media on multiple occasions to speak about the role and challenges faced by the healthcare workers, prominently by pharmacists, in the health industry. The following are the prominent media coverage:
Her achievements were highlighted by UK 44; a Pakistani news channel for the Asian community residing in the
United Kingdom.[51]
She was interviewed by
BBC Asian Network's Nihal Show and
Geo News.[10][52][53] And also, by famous magazines like OK Pakistan, Hello Pakistan, and Scientia Pakistan to speak about her efforts and achievements in the healthcare industry.[12]
During the year 2020, she was invited by
PTV News,
24 News HD,
Dawn News, and other leading channels to speak about the role and importance of healthcare workers during the pandemic.[54][55]
In 2021, she was interviewed by Dr. Nazish Affan on
UrduPoint, a digital media network, to discuss the effects of the vaccine developed for the
Coronavirus.[38]
Honors and awards
Bukhari received the following honors and awards throughout her career:
She has been titled as the ‘
UCL Global Pharmacy Ambassador’ for her global advocacy work and nominated for the Provost's Global Engagement Awards 2018.[4]
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