Join the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for a regional webinar to mark World Patient Safety Day 2025 under the slogan “Patient safety from the start!”.
📌 Title: Safe care for every newborn and child
📅 Date: 23 September 2025
🕑 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (EDT)
🔗 Registration
Interpretation available in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
Recording
Background
Each year on 17 September, World Patient Safety Day is observed. In 2025, the slogan “Patient safety from the start!” highlights the importance of preventing harm from early childhood to secure lifelong benefits.
PAHO is organizing this regional event to shed light on the risks faced by newborns and children in health care and to mobilize action to improve their safety. This commemoration offers a key platform to advance in the Americas an agenda focused on the first 1,000 days of life: preventing sepsis, strengthening neonatal care, and consolidating safe care strategies that ensure quality, equitable, and respectful services from the very beginning of life.
Audience
Policy-makers from Ministries of Health and other sectors, academics, health leaders, health professionals and workers, patient organizations, patients and families, and the general public.
Agenda
- Welcome remarks. Suzanne Serruya, Unit Chief, Women's, Maternal, Neonatal, and Reproductive Health, PAHO
- Patient safety from the start. Ernesto Báscolo, Unit Chief, Primary Health Care and Integrated Service Delivery, PAHO
- Challenges in safety and respectful care for newborns and children
- Suzanne Serruya, Unit Chief, Women's, Maternal, Neonatal, and Reproductive Health, PAHO
- Sonja Caffe, Unit Chief, Healthy Life Course, PAHO
- 2025 World's Patient Safety Day goals: countries experience
- Moderation: Pablo Durán, Advisor in Perinatal Health, Women's, Maternal, Neonatal, and Reproductive Health, PAHO
- Enhancing medication safety (Brazil TBC)
- Improving diagnostic safety: eHealth (Honduras TBC)
- Reducing risks in premature, small, and ill newborns: ROP prevention (Argentina)
- Infection prevention (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Engaging families and caregivers: March of Dimes (USA)
- Conclusions and closing remarks. Sonja Caffe, Unit Chief, Healthy Life Course, PAHO