The first international pharmacy initiative committed to raising awareness and addressing loneliness and social isolation to improve the health of patients and society.





ABOUT THE FOUNDER JENNY
Jenny Kirschner
FOUNDER of PALS on a mission to inspire, educate and mobilise the pharmacy industry to help address loneliness.
Jenny Kirschner has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare and pharmacy sector. She has worked as a clinical and retail pharmacist, a health coach for lifestyle modification programs and as a National Health Services Pharmacist delivering impactful and innovative health programs.

“Through her connection to Monash’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Jenny) is conducting presentations to staff and pharmacy students to help them improve their own health literacy in the science of loneliness.
Her longer-term goal is for an in-depth understanding of the health effects associated with loneliness and social isolation, and how to address them, to become an intrinsic part of pharmacy practice across Australia.”
– Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
