A look at six accredited South African private hospitals and how they managed to operate during COVID.

The COVID pandemic has taught the world many lessons. It shifted paradigms that global public health has taken for granted. The question that remains foremost in the minds of many is this: can health systems be made robust so that when the next pandemic or other disaster hits, we will be ready?

We would like to offer our sincere congratulations to Ron D. Hays, PhDDistinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA School of Public Health; Senior Social Policy Analyst, RAND who has been awarded the 2022 Health Assessment Lab/Medical Outcomes Trust* John Ware and Alvin Tarlov Career Achievement Prize in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs).

Registration open: 7th Annual UC Davis Health 2-Day Clinical Quality Improvement Design Workshop. The workshop is geared toward clinicians, health professions trainees, and healthcare staff who want to learn about how to design and implement a quality improvement (QI) project or initiative. Online access to required pre-workshop readings is provided in advance.

Over the years that I've been associated with ISQua in various ways (over two decades now: time really does fly), I've noticed some characteristics of our members, fellows, academicians, and the multiplicity of other stakeholders that are involved with our work.

Wow, how fast time has flown! It feels like yesterday when I sat here to write the WMTY 2021 blog.