Head of Paediatrics Department; Jönköping University and Region Jönköping County, Sweden

As a paediatrician and head of Department of Paediatrics in the population based healthcare system in Jönköping County, Boel Andersson Gäre led the development of quality improvement in healthcare for children as part of the IHI initiative “Pursuing Perfection”. The Department later achieved the National Quality award – a Swedish version of Malcolm Baldrige award. Subsequently, as the head of Child Public Health she developed a QI program for whole system change, “the Child Dialogue” starting from the needs of the child and family, inspired by complexity science and coproduction. Later, she led two large research programs “Bridging the Gaps” with a multidisciplinary and participatory research approach. The programs led to a number of doctoral dissertations in improvement research and built capacity for the Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare (JA) – a partnership between the healthcare system, social care and the Jönköping University. As professor at JA, Boel AG was one of the founders of a master program in QI, for which she was awarded a national price “Leadership developer of the year”. The last years she has led the development of Centre for Coproduction – a partnership organisation at JA, built to support a deep understanding of innovative approaches to make coproduction for health “the new normal”.