President, International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua); Australia

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite is a leading health services and systems researcher with an international reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement. He has expertise in the culture and structure of acute settings, leadership, management and change in health sector organisations, quality and safety in healthcare, health sector reform in international context and the restructuring of health services. He has professorial appointments at six universities, is the President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) and is an expert for, and advisor to, the WHO, the OECD and research groups around the world. He currently teaches in postgraduate medical programs with Harvard Medical School and has research projects with, amongst others, researchers at Oxford University, UK; University of Southern Denmark; University of Stavanger, Norway; and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo, Brazil.