International Relations
On January 3, 2007, Hangzhou Medical College and MCPHS established a Sister College agreement to participate in short-term international student exchange programs. The MCPHS delegation met with Xiang Qin, the Deputy Mayor of Hangzhou, the Directors of the Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau and the Hangzhou Food and Drug Administration to discuss the future of regulation concerning pharmaceutical manufacturing and pharmacy practice for the region. The colleges now confer on Health Care issues pertaining to both Western Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The agreement also established a faculty exchange program between the two colleges. The collaboration was most likely facilitated by the sister city agreement between Hangzhou, China and Boston, which was established in 1982 to promote cultural and commercial ties between the two populations.
In January 2008, MCPHS received a $450,000 grant to assist King Saud University in further developing its own College of Pharmacy. Located in Riyadh, King Saud University is Saudi Arabia's oldest and most premier University, which bears the name of the Saudi Royal Family. It is the first university in Saudi Arabia which is not solely dedicated to religious studies and currently has schools which teach Medicine, Engineering and the Arts and Sciences.
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has entered into affiliation agreements with the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Trinity College Dublin; the University of Havana, Cuba; the Catholic University of Santa Maria in Arequipa, Perú and the Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences in Japan. The agreements provide a framework for faculty and students to engage in individual research and study projects. In recent years, students have presented scholarly posters in Cuba, taken summer elective courses on tropical medicine and medical anthropology in Perú and participated in service learning trips to Guatemala during summer break. The College has also hosted international pharmacy students from Perú and Spain, as well as guest faculty from Ireland, Cuba and Japan.
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