East London NHS Foundation Trust

Katherine Brittin is Associate Director of QI at East London Foundation NHS Trust, she is a registered midwife and gained a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Cape Town, she became a certified Improvement Advisor from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 2013.

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 Trust to develop her improvement expertise and support the Trust in their improvement strategy.

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 women for Woman International.