Officially, ISQua was born in Udine, Italy on 29 June 1985 in connection with a World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group on Training in Quality Assurance. The founding fathers were the participants of this Working Group. The idea of an international society devoted to quality assurance in health care was, however, born much earlier – arguably in Kuopio, Finland on a beautiful April evening in 1977, the same year I was born.

We are delighted to share the work of Fellowship graduate Agneta Chelimo, a nurse and Standards and Process Improvement Coordinator at Kenyatta Hospital in Kenya.