International Advisory Group (IAG)

The International Advisory Group (IAG) of the Global Knowledge Sharing Platform for Patient Safety (GKPS) comprises international health care and patient safety experts. The key roles of the IAG are to:

• review best practices, tools and resources, patient safety experiences, events and programmes submitted to GKPS

• provide endorsement for best practices, tools and resources to be shared on GKPS

• support the editorial board

SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (IPSQ) serves as the secretariat of the International Advisory Group (IAG).

Members of
GKPS International Advisory Group (IAG)

1. Professor Tan Kok Hian, GKPS Lead
   Group Director and Senior Associate Dean
   SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (IPSQ), Singapore

2. Dr Blerta Maliqi, GKPS Co-Lead
   Head, Patient Safety and Quality of Care Unit
   World Health Organization, Switzerland

3. Dr Irina Papieva
   Technical Officer, Patient Safety and Quality of Care Unit
   World Health Organization, Switzerland

4. Dr Ayda Taha
   Technical Officer, Patient Safety and Quality of Care Unit
   World Health Organization, Switzerland

5. Professor Ezequiel Garcia Elorrio
   President, International Society for Quality (ISQua)
   Argentina

6. Professor Nabil Dowidar
   Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Patient Safety - Interprofessional Education
   Egypt

7. Dr Jitendra Nath Srivastava
   Advisor and Head, QPS Division
   National Health System Resource Centre New Delhi, India

8. Dr Malathi Arshanapalai
   Chief Quality Officer, Aster DM Healthcare, India

9. Dr Inge Dhamanti
   Head, Center of Excellence for Patient Safety and Quality
   Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia

10. Assistant Professor Kazumi Tanaka
    Assistant Professor, Quality and Safety in Healthcare
    Gunma University, Japan

11. Dr Lydia Okutoyi
    Director, Health Care Quality
    Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya

12. Dr Asad Latif
    Chair, Department of Anaesthesiology
    Aga Khan University, Pakistan

13. Professor Paulo Sousa
    Professor, School of Public Health
    NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal

14. Ms Ronel Steinhobel
    Deputy Director, Complaint Management
    National Department of Health, South Africa

15. Dr Neelam Dhingra
    Vice President and Chief Patient Safety Officer, Joint Commission International

16. Ms Melanie Leis
    Director of Policy and Analysis, Centre for Health Policy, Institute of Global Health Innovation
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

17. Professor Hardeep Singh
    Chief, Health Policy, Quality & Informatics, VA Center of Innovation
    Baylor College of Medicine, USA

18. Professor Rashad Massoud
    Head of Global Health, IQVIA, USA
    Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Rashad Massoud Associates LLC

IAG Secretariat Team

1. Ms Zann Foo
   Deputy Director
   SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (IPSQ), Singapore

2. Ms Mabel Sim
   Assistant Manager
   SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (IPSQ), Singapore

3. Ms Annabel Loh
   Executive
   SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (IPSQ), Singapore