 Pharmacists are often an inherent part of() of care (e.g., through community pharmacies, managed-care facilities, long-term care), so they can play a significant role in ensuring medication safety by counseling patients, identifying potential medicationrelated adverse drug events, and putting in place strategies to prevent those events (e.g., notifying pharmacy colleagues in a setting that a patient is transferring to, or raising awareness of possible threats to medication safety for specific patients).  Pharmacists’ ability to ()-solve and decrease future medication-related adverse events is beneficial to public health at large.