For 16 weeks from January to April (cohort one) and from June to October (cohort two) 2026, ACQUIRE invites your institution to assemble a QI team primarily composed of healthcare workers who have completed the 2024/25 ACQUIRE Theory QI Leadership Course to implement a quality improvement project in your healthcare institution.
This document outlines content for Application to the 2026 ACQUIRE Experiential QI Leadership Course for QI Teams.
See linked here the various sections of information provided for your reference:
Note: Application deadline is 29th October 2025.
Team leader applicants are welcome to fill in and submit your team’s application to
[email protected]
How to Apply
Please fill out and submit this QI Teams Application Form outlining the details of your QI Project within your institution.
Course Overview
The ACQUIRE QI Experiential Leadership Course is a 16-week practical application of quality improvement theory and tools to a frontline challenge in quality or patient safety. Teams will develop systems of data management, apply evidence-based practices, and grow processes specific to address a challenge in their institution. The ACQUIRE clinical improvement program will remotely link hospital-based, multi-disciplinary teams with ACQUIRE mentor-coaches and peer QI teams across SSA. QI Teams will meet each week to tackle their frontline challenge, and every other week to check in with their mentor-coach as well as peer hospital QI teams via zoom. This learning experience combines didactics on improvement theory and tools with group learning sessions where participating teams progressively share their experiences leading their quality improvement project.
Who is Eligible to Apply
The program is open to healthcare workers across all cadres whose institutional teams completed the 2024/25 ACQUIRE Theory QI Leadership Course. (Find below a list of institutions that gained eligibility by having at least six staff members complete the theory course).
Objectives
At the end of the course, participants will:
- Be familiar with the basic concepts and tools of the science and methodology of continuous quality improvement,
- Understand the critical need for continuous quality improvement in the practice of medicine today, and
- Lead their own quality improvement project at the local site and test at least 2 interventions
Course dates and Time Commitment: 16 weeks in 2026
Hospital-led, multi-disciplinary QI team projects that are accepted into the 2026 ACQUIRE QI Experiential Leadership Cohort will be placed in either the January Cohort or the June cohort. See below the cohort starting and ending dates.
- Cohort one will start on Thursday, 15th January, 2026 and end on Thursday, 30th April, 2026
- Cohort two will start on Thursday, 11th June, 2026 and end on Thursday, 1st October, 2026
- Meeting cadence: Every other week on Thursdays from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EAT) or 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (GMT)
- Location: Remote (online via zoom, a shared google drive and your QI team WhatsApp group)