Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite is the 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 in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has professorial appointments at six other universities internationally, and he is past Board Chair and President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) and a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Professor Braithwaite is a leading health services and systems researcher with an international reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement. He has extensive expertise in researching acute settings, leadership, management, and change, quality and safety, standards and accreditation, health sector reform, and the restructuring of health services. His most recent work looks at the future of healthcare to 2030; patient safety; learning health systems; applying implementation science to healthcare problems; and health systems’ capacity to cope with climate change.

He has published over 900 refereed contributions, 17 books, and presented at conferences on over 1,540 occasions. Amongst many other prestigious journals, he has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, JAMA, The Lancet, The Lancet Psychiatry, Nature Climate Change, Genes, and BMC Medicine.