Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite

Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Professor, Health Systems Research, Macquarie University

Phone: +61 2 9850 2401

E-mail: jeffrey.braithwaite@mq.edu.au

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BIOGRAPHY

BA [UNE], DipLR, MIR [Syd], MBA [Macq], PhD [UNSW], FIML, FACHSM, FAHMS, FFPHRCP [UK], FAcSS [UK], Hon FRACMA

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite is Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science and Professor of Health Systems Research at Macquarie University.

Professor Braithwaite is a leading health services and systems researcher with an international reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement. He is visiting or adjunct Professor at Newcastle University and University of Birmingham in the UK; University of Southern Denmark; University of Stavanger, Norway; University of New South Wales; and Honorary Senior International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies in Tokyo, Japan. He is the Immediate Past President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), having been President from 2020 to 2023. He has considerable expertise in researching the culture and structure of acute settings, leadership, management and change in health sector organisations, quality and safety in health care, 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. He has published extensively about organisational, social and team approaches to care (over 835 refereed contributions and 1,490 publications) with more than 34,650 citations. He has presented at or chaired international and national conferences, workshops, symposia and meetings on more than 1,470 occasions, including over 135 keynote addresses. Theories and ideas he has shaped or devised are now in common use; for example, multi-method, triangulated approaches to research, the boundary-less hospital, accreditation models in general practice and beyond, clinician-managers as key players in reform initiatives, fundamental principles for the governance of health systems, diversity in clinical professional groups, and inter-professional learning and culture change as a more sustainable strategy for reform. His empirical results have exposed the distinctive attitudes of clinical professional groups, how clinician-managers enact their leadership responsibilities, the behavioural displays of clinicians in service structures and the status of system-wide patient safety improvement initiatives.

Professor Braithwaite referees for 31 journals and the health research bodies of Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom as well as for many international conferences and symposia. He publishes in the leading journals in three convergent fields and thus expresses his work at a unique intersection of organisational studies, health services research and clinical care. Journals he contributes to include Nature Climate Change, The Lancet Psychiatry, Journal of the American Medical Association, BMC Medicine, the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, PLoS Medicine, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Health Services Management Research, BMJ Quality and Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Social Science & Medicine, BMC Health Services Research, International Journal of Health Planning and Management and Journal of Health, Organisation and Management.

Professor Braithwaite's TED Talk can be viewed here: Turning, breaking or vanishing point

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Current Appointments - Macquarie University

Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, 2014-present
Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, 2014-present (previously, UNSW, 2007-2014)
Director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Faculty of Medicine, Macquarie University, 2014-present (previously, UNSW, 2001-2014)

Current Appointments - International

Commissioner - The Lancet Commission on Transformative research to scale mental health interventions, 2023-present
Member - Faculty Member of the South East Asian Leadership (SEA) International Certificate Program, Harvard University Medical School, 2020-present
Member - Faculty Member of the Safety, Quality, Informatics, Leadership (SQIL) International Certificate Program, Harvard University Medical School, 2020-present
International Member - WHO Global Patient Safety Network, Geneva, Switzerland, 2015-present
Committee Member - Resilient Healthcare Net (RHCN) Conference Organising Committee, 2012-present
Immediate Past-President - International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), 2020-2024
International Member - Partners at Care Transitions – Pact: Scientific Steering Group, NIHR Funded project with Leeds University, United Kingdom, 2017-present
Advisor - Irish Health Services on Collective Leadership, Teamwork and Safety Cultures, 2016-present
Visiting Professor - Department of Health Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway, 2015-present
Board Member - International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), 2015-present
International Core Group Member - The Resilient Health Care Net, Denmark, 2011-present
Honorary Scientific Committee Member - International Health Conference, convened by the Oxford based Foundation for Knowledge Exchange, 2014-present
Visiting Professor of Health Systems Research - Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, 2014-present [Professor 2006-2014 Associate Professor, 2001-2006; Senior Lecturer, 1994-2000]
Adjunct Professor - Resilient Health Care and Patient Safety, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, 2019-2024.
External Advisory Board - NIHR CLAHRC South London, External Advisory Board, King’s College London, UK, 2014-present
External Scientific Advisor - NIHR CLAHRC West Midlands, External Scientific Advisory Group, Birmingham, UK, 2014-present
International Member - ISQua Innovation Committee, Dublin, Ireland, 2012-present
International ISQua Expert - One of a select group providing strategic advice to ISQua as a leading international expert in accreditation quality and safety research. Dublin, Ireland, 2012-present
International Member - ISQua International Accreditation Programme, Research Working Group, Dublin, Ireland, 2009-present
Honorary Professor - University of Birmingham, UK, 2010-present
Honorary Senior International Research Fellow - Canon Institute for Global Studies, Japan, 2010-present
Consultant - World Health Organization: a range of projects in recent years in Papua New Guinea, East Timor, China and Japan, 1995-present
Member - International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), 2007-present
Professional Member - American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007-present
International Assessor - Royal Society of New Zealand, Centres for Research Excellence Fund, 2007-present
International Reviewer - Health Research Board, Republic of Ireland, 2007-present
International Scientific Evaluator - Swiss National Science Foundation, 2008-present
International Reviewer; Member, College of Experts - NHS Service Delivery and Organisation [SDO] Research and Development Program, 2006-present
International Reviewer - National Institute of Health Research [NIHR], NHS, 2008-present
International Reviewer - Israel Science Foundation, Israel, 2008-present
Member - Faculty Executive Group, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University

Current Appointments - National

Member - Safer Care Victoria’s Quality and Safety Executive Committee – Leadership in Improvement and Innovation, Victoria, Australia, 2022-present
Member - Genomics National Steering Committee, Australian Genomics Health Alliance, Melbourne, Australia, 2018-present
Member - Global Genomics Medicine Collaboration (G2MC), 2017-present
Member - National Health and Medical Research Council’s Innovation Assessment Working Group, 2017- present
Founding Member - Climate and Health Alliance [CAHA], 2010-present
Board Member - The Baird Institute for Cardiothoracic Research, 2009-present
Founding Member - Australian Health Care Reform Alliance, 2002-present
External Assessor - National Health and Medical Research Council, 2003-present
Assessor; Expert of International Standing - Australian Research Council, 2003-present
Founding Member - Hospital Reform Group, 2004-present

Specific research keywords

Patient Safety, Evidence Based Healthcare, Health Services Research, Health Systems, Organisational Behaviour, Health System Sustainability

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Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite