Nikhil Prakash Gupta is a Technical Officer in the Patient Safety and Quality of Care unit at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva. He works on WHO’s global agenda for patient safety measurement and played a key role in developing and coordinating the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030. In 2024, he coordinated the first Global Patient Safety Report, based on data from a Global Member State survey. Before moving to WHO headquarters in 2018, he worked with WHO country offices in India and the Maldives, where he was involved in developing India’s National Patient Safety Implementation Framework and the Maldives Health Care Quality Standards. Earlier in his career, at the National Health Systems Resource Center (NHSRC) in India, he contributed to the Quality Assurance Framework and the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) for public health facilities, as well as initiatives on WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) in healthcare facilities and Standard Treatment Guidelines. At WHO headquarters, his work includes supporting the implementation of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan, developing patient safety standards and assessment tools, Human Factors application, and strengthening patient safety reporting and learning systems.

Sarah Hilmer (BScMed(Hons) MBBS(Hons) FRACP PhD) is the head of the department of Clinical Pharmacology and a senior staff specialist in Aged Care at Royal North Shore Hospital. She is Conjoint Professor of Geriatric Pharmacology at The University of Sydney. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Scientists (FAHMS) and was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her service to clinical and geriatric pharmacology in 2022. Hilmer’s translational research program in Ageing and Pharmacology at the Kolling Institute includes basic, clinical and population studies to understand the effects of medications and of deprescribing in ageing and frailty. Sarah is chair of the IUPHAR Clinical and Translational Section and also Chairs its Geriatric Pharmacology Committee.

Priyadharshani Galappatthy, MBBS(Col), MD(Col), MRCP(UK), DipMedTox(Cardiff), FCCP, FRCP(Lond) is Senior Professor and Chair Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She was a World Health Organisation (WHO) Consultant, in the Patient Safety and Quality of Care Unit, Integrated Health Services Department, WHO Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland from 2022-2024 supporting the implementation of the WHO Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030. She was involved in the planning of the WHO third Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Without Harm, launched in 2017 and drafted the National Action Plan on medication safety in Sri Lanka launched in 2021. She currently supports the Joint Commission International on improving patient safety through their ‘Patient Safety Pathways’ initiative launched in 2025. She is deputy chair of IUPHAR Medical & Clinical Pharmacology Committee. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority of Sri Lanka, contributing to medicines regulation in the country.

Dr. Kazumi Tanaka is a Professor in the Department of Healthcare Quality and Safety at Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine. She is a doctor with a PhD and a pharmacist with an MPharm. With a background as a surgeon and a pharmacist, she has extensive experience in hospital patient safety management, patient safety education and training, quality improvement, and simulation. She also worked at the Patient Safety Flagship at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva from 2019 to 2020, where she contributed to the publication of several materials, including the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030.

Dr. Rimple Jeet Kaur, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at AIIMS Jodhpur. She serves as the Assistant Dean, Research Section, AIIMS Jodhpur, and the Associate Member Secretary of the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), AIIMS Jodhpur, and also contributes as an External Member of the IEC at Dr. S. N. Medical College, Jodhpur. She is the Co-Coordinator of the Medication Safety Committee at AIIMS Jodhpur and actively works toward strengthening patient safety practices. Dr. Kaur is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of Indian Academy of Geriatrics. In the social and public health domain, she serves as the Joint Secretary of the Caregiver’s Asha Society, where she is involved in training trainers to improve medication adherence and medication safety. Her professional contributions span research governance, ethics oversight, medication safety, and capacity building in healthcare.