Ezequiel García-Elorrio – Solutions from Argentina to Support Health Care Providers in a Pandemic

Ezequiel Garcia Elorrio
Director, Health Care Quality & Patient Safety; Director, Administration & Finance Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (Argentina)

Ezequiel practices medicine as a general internist and is currently a professor of public health at Argentina’s El Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas (Centre for Medical Education and Clinical Research). He also holds a lecturer position at the University of Buenos Aires.

He has worked extensively in quality of care and patient safety research, education and implementation projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. He was recently appointed president-elect of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), where he is active in promoting improvement globally.

Ezequiel was also recently part of The Lancet Global Health Commission on High-Quality Health Systems in the Sustainable Development Goals Era, which contributed a renewed vision of the field of improvement and measurement.