Dr Gazala Akram
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Personal statement
Personal statement
I have been qualified as a pharmacist for over 30 years and have 20 + years of experience in academia. My clinical speciality is psychiatric pharmacy and I have practised across the breadth of inpatient mental health services including adult, forensic, addiction and young people. My research is primarily optimising psychotropic medicine use and more recently in Pharmacy Regulation.
I am a Registrant Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) ‘Fitness to Practice’ committee and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pharmacy (since 2020).
I have teaching commitments on the MPharm and PG degrees and I am the Course Drector for the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy.
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Prize And Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (FRPS)
- Recipient
- 2024
- Developing GP and Comm Pharm partnerships
- Recipient
- 12/11/2014
- Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner Project
- Recipient
- 7/11/2014
- Patients and service providers understanding of the Metabolic Effects of Clozapine-Best Research Poster.
- Recipient
- 8/10/2014
- Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner Project
- Recipient
- 2/10/2014
- ‘Teachers Knowledge & Perceptions of ADHD and its treatment’. Awarded “ Best Original Research” Presentation.
- Recipient
- 9/10/2010
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Publications
- Pharmacy inspection outcomes in Great Britain : an analysis of regulatory compliance and the impact of vaccination service provision
- Goswami Cosmika, Carmel Yoni, Gittins Rosalind, Akram Gazala
- Pharmacy Vol 14 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy14040107
- A systematic review of community pharmacy-led depression services : service components, outcomes and implementation barriers and facilitators
- Kernaghan David, Alshammari Hisham, Akram Gazala, Pratt Judith, Maxwell Margaret, Watson Margaret C, Weir Natalie
- Depression and Anxiety Vol 2026 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1155/da/9977874
- Identifying and developing a Community Pharmacy Depression Service in the UK: a systematic review and multi-stakeholder eDelphi study
- McFadyen Weir Natalie, Kernaghan David, Alshammari Hisham, Akram Gazala, Pratt Judith, Maxwell Margaret, Watson Margaret
- Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy Vol 21, pp. e69 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.06.091
- A qualitative exploration of how pharmacy professionals in primary care utilise planned protected development time
- Cairns Fiona, Patrick Robyn, Calderhead Gillian, Forsyth Paul, Akram Gazala
- Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy Vol 13 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2024.100417
- Building the evidence base for community pharmacy depression services
- Weir Natalie, Kernaghan David, Watson Margaret, Akram Gazala, Maxwell Margaret, Pratt Judith
- Mental Health Care Futures (2023)
- A scoping review of clozapine use in children aged 13 years and under
- Akram Gazala
- College of Mental Health Pharmacy (2022)
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Professional Activities
- Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/1/2026
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE RESEACH (NIHR) (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 22/12/2025
- MPhil Internal Examiner
- Examiner
- 1/11/2025
- Chief Scientist Office Scotland (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 5/8/2025
- Keynote and Panel Discussion: Mental Health
- Speaker
- 5/6/2025
- NORDIC Social Pharmacy Conference 2025
- Organiser
- 4/6/2025
Projects
- Building the Evidence Base for Community Pharmacy Depression Services: a Systematic Review and Multi-stakeholder Consensus Exercise (CMHP-PRUK CP Mental Health Services)
- Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Pratt, Judith (Co-investigator) Watson, Margaret (Co-investigator) Alshammari, Hisham Abdulaziz M (Researcher) Kernaghan, David (Researcher)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- COMMUNITY PHARMACY SCOTLAND: INVESTIGATING VALUE AS PERCEIVED AND EXPERIENCED BY SERVICE USERS
- Akram, Gazala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
- BTG: Developing effective interventions to promote safe administration of medicines mixed in foodstuff to children in hospital
- Adair, Pauline (Academic) Akram, Gazala (Academic) Dixon, Diane (Academic)
- This cross-disciplinary project addresses a key challenge in children’s health and directly addresses current Government initiatives to improve patient safety following the Francis report. This study is a new cross-faculty collaboration in the area of patient safety and medication use. Patient safety is a core research theme for Behavioural Medicine at Strathclyde (Adair & Dixon) and is a key research theme with the proposed Centre for Behavioural Medicine in HASS. It will initiate a planned programme of cross-faculty collaboration (SIPBS and School of psychological Sciences and Health) in the area of medication use. This programme of research fills a gap and directly addresses the third wave of improvements in health outcomes driven by behaviour change, which will drive many of the advancements in healthcare in the next ten years.
- 07-Jan-2014 - 06-Jan-2014
- Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner Project
- Dunlop, Emma (Researcher) Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Newham, Rosemary (Researcher)
- • Working in the Skye, Kyle & Lochalsh area, this project aims to establish the gaps and strengths of the end of life/palliative pharmacy-based services in this rural project area. Funded by Boots PLC, NHS Highland and Macmillan
- 01-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2014
- Evaluation of the macmillan pharmacist facilitator project
- Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Hudson, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 11-Jan-2010 - 31-Jan-2012
- An investigation into the prescribing and adminstration of psychotropic ‘as required’ medication in secure in-patient facilities.
- Akram, Gazala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2010 - 31-Jan-2010
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Contact
Dr
Gazala
Akram
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Email: gazala.akram@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4980