ISQua Membership Values & Benefits
Knowledge
Access articles, presentations, reports and recordings from international healthcare experts. Receive updates on activities of interest to you.
Network
Connect with our global Community. Join special interest groups focusing on the aspects of health care the matter to you.
Voice
Make your Voice heard and be recognised as a part of an international community working to enhance patient safety and quality improvement.
Conference Tracks
The theme for this year's conference is 'Emotion, Inspiration and Creativity: Pathways to Global Health Quality'.
The conference was originally scheduled to take place in Florence, Italy. The Renaissance was a period of rebirth with new ideas discoveries and the flowering of wonderful art.
For the conference, we chose three key essential components of the Renaissance - Emotion, Inspiration and Creativity as we believe these will the pathway to Global Health Quality.
1. Policy for Quality and Safety
2. Developing Leaders for quality and safety
3. Economic benefits of improving quality and safety
4. Behavioural Economics
ISQua Conference 2021 Programme
Please find below the daily schedules for the conference. All times shown are Irish Standard Time (UTC+1). You can find your equivalent time zone here. Please note that the conference schedule is subject to change.
The conference portal is now open to registered delegates. The programme on the portal contains the most up to date information on the conference.
Committees

Co - Chairs
- Riccardo Tartaglia; The Italian Network for Safety in Health Care (INSH)
- Jeffrey Braithwaite; ISQua President- Elect
Committee
- Sara Albolino; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
- John Brennan; General Practitioner
- Silvio Brusaferro; University of Udine
- Stephen Clark; ISQua Board Member (conf 2021)
- Helen Crisp; Independent Consultant
- Vittorio Fineschi; University le Sapienza, Rome
- Federico Gelli; Italia in Salute
- Peter Lachman; ISQua CEO
- Eugene Nelson; The Dartmouth Institution
- Wendy Nicklin; ISQua President
- Sabina Nuti; Santanna school, Pisa
- Rohit Ramaswamy; Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Walter Ricciardi; University Sacro Cuore
- Jacqui Stewart; COHSASA
- Carlo Rinaldo Tomassini; Dept. of Health Tuscany
- Shin Ushiro; ISQua Board Member
- Manvir Victor; ISQua Patient Representative
The Programme and Planning Committee oversees the development of the scientific programme and is responsible for ensuring the quality of the content of the conference.
Local Organising Committee Members
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Sara Albolino; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Giulia Dagliana; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Michela Tanzini; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Giulio Toccafondi; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Francesco Venneri; INSH & GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Elena Beleffi; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Stavros Prineas; ErroMed, Australia
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Francesco Ranzani; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Elisabetta Flore; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) supports the Programme and Planning Committee (PPC) to include work from regional hospitals and institutions. THe LOC are responsible for designing educational visits to local Institutions of excellence for our international delegates while taking every opportunity to promote the conference to local delegates.