DrSarira El-Den

BPharm(Hons I) MIPH PhD GradCertEdStud(Higher Ed) FHEA

Dr Sarira El-Den is a Pharmacist and Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy. Sarira is a Mental Health First Aid® (MHFA®) Master Instructor and has been involved in the delivery of training to pharmacists and students across Australia. Sarira is a mental health researcher and her work focuses around mental health screening, education and care. During her PhD, Sarira also concurrently undertook and completed a Masters in International Public Health through the Sydney School of Public Health. She has also completed a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies - Higher Education through the School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney. Sarira is currently the Secretary of the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Sarira's past achievements include being awarded the PSA Pharmacy Student of the Year Award for South Australia-Northern Territory (2012), completing the Ignite Pharmacist Leadership Program (2015) and receiving an Endeavour Research Fellowship (2016). More recently, she has been the recipient of the Quality Teaching Reward at Sydney Pharmacy School (2018) and the Faculty of Medicine and Health (FMH) Awards for Excellence - Outstanding Teaching by an Early Career Academic (2019), as well as two Maker and Shaper Awards for Teaching Excellence (Team) by FMH (2021, 2022).  In 2022, Sarira was awarded the NSW Early Career Pharmacist of the Year by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), and recognised by the International Pharmaceutical Federation as a Rising Star - Women in Science and Education (FIPWiSE Rising Star).