Associate Director, ELFT Quality Improvement department; East London NHS Foundation Trust, England

Katherine Brittin (BM, MPH) is an intrinsic improver and as a student midwife often found herself in hot water by questioning practices that could be improved. She continues to make waves and is a passionate advocate for pursuing equity in global healthcare for marginalised populations. Katherine has a bachelor of midwifery and a master’s in public health from the University of Dundee and Cape Town respectively and in 2013 became a certified Improvement Advisor from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Katherine spent 13 years in South Africa working for US funded non-government organisations, where the focus of her experience was health system strengthening to support HIV and TB programmes using a QI approach to reduce transmission from mother to infants and to improve system wide health care management to improve population health. Katherine returned to the NHS in 2019 and joined East London NHS Foundation to develop her improvement expertise and support the Trust in their improvement strategy. She is an Associate Director of QI and leads two main learning systems around pursuing equity and Optimising Flow. In her home life she has two teenage children. In her spare time enjoys running in nature with her dog and is a member and advocate for woman for woman international.