The Fourth Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety took place in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from 2–3 March 2019. This year’s Summit focused on patient safety in low and middle-income countries and reducing adverse events.

ISQua in collaboration with Lucian Leape are launching a new Patient Safety Fellowship Programme available to all current physicians and health care providers from developing countries, or countries in transition, interested in advancing and expanding their expertise in patient safety, with resultant improvement of safety of patients in their local area. 

Prof Dr Matiur Rahman (Pakistan) was one of four ISQua Fellowship Participants who took part in the internship programme hosted by AGPAL (Australia). Here he shares his reflections and learnings from his time in Australia.

Authors: BRIANNE KALLAM¹ , CHRISTIE PETTITT-SCHIEBER² , MEDGE OWEN³ , REBECCA AGYARE ASANTE⁴ , ELIZABETH DARKO⁴ , and ROHIT RAMASWAMY² , ¹Kybele, Inc., Lewisville, NC 27023, USA, ²Public Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA, ³Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA, and ⁴Department of Child Health, Ridge Regional Hospital, Accra, Ghana.