IAPO and NCD Alliance's Our Views, Our Voices initiative warmly invite you to the World Patient Safety Day 2026 Global Webinar:

"Partners in Safe Care: Lived Experience and Collective Action for Safety in Noncommunicable Diseases".

This webinar is being organised to mark World Patient Safety Day 2026, aligned with the theme of safe care for noncommunicable diseases – 'Safe care for life!'. 

This 90-minute interactive session will feature a moderated panel that will bring civil society, patient organisations and health professional societies into conversation, in two rounds: 1) where and how harm happens across the NCD care journey, and 2) what partnership for safe care between patients and other stakeholders looks like in practice. The webinar closes with each panellist stating one concrete commitment their constituency makes towards safer NCD care.

Dr Blerta Maliqi, Head of the Patient Safety and Quality of Care Unit (World Health Organization, HQ) will deliver the opening address and Dr Ratna Devi, IAPO board member, will serve as the session moderator.

Event details:

Date: 16 September 2026

Time: 11:00-12:30 CEST

Via Zoom

Register here

Featuring distinguished panellists:

• Dr Ratna Devi – IAPO Board Member and CEO/co-founder of DakshamA Health and Education [Moderator] 
• Dr Blerta Maliqi – Unit Head of Patient Safety and Quality of Care, World Health Organization HQ
• Ferdinant M. Sonyuy – CSEM for UHC2030 Advisory Group in Cameroon & President/CEO of Reconciliation and Development Association (RADA) 
• Lydia Makaroff – CEO of Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF) 
• Ikram Eseghir – Advisory Committee Member of NCD Alliance's Our Views, Our Voices initiative & Founder/President of NABD-BC2 (Best Care for Breast Cancer) Association in Morocco
• Klaus B von Pressentin – Chair of WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety