John Bell is a Practitioner/Teacher in the Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney and has a community pharmacy practice in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. John is a former President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), President of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) and Vice President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). He is currently a member of the Global Pain Faculty and of the Global Respiratory Infection Partnership, an international multidisciplinary group established to address the issue of antibiotic resistance, and he is also an advisor to PSA’s Pharmacy Self Care Program, a consumer health information and pharmacist training program.