Research Challenges in Quality of Care and Patient Safety: Working Across Complexity, Implementation and Improvement

IHPME Guest Speaker: Jeffrey Braithwaite

PhD, FIML, FCHSM, FFPHRCP, FAcSS, Hon FRACMA, FAHMS
Professor of Health Systems Research
Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Director Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite is a leading health services and systems researcher with an international reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement. He has particular expertise in the culture and structure of acute settings, leadership, management and change in health sector organisations, quality and safety in healthcare, accreditation and surveying processes in international context and the restructuring of health services. Professor Braithwaite is well known for bringing management and leadership concepts and evidence into the clinical arena and he has published extensively (more than 450 refereed contributions, and more than 930 total publications) about organisational, social and team approaches to care which has raised the importance of these in Australia and internationally.