Senior Improvement Advisor, HSCQI, Public Health Agency; Northern Ireland

Dr Anita Rowe is a Senior Improvement Advisor in HSCQI, the improvement hub for health and social care in Northern Ireland. Anita is a speech and language therapist by profession, with over 20 years of clinical and managerial experience in delivering services for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) in mainstream schools. She is a graduate of the Scottish Improvement Leaders (ScIL) and holds a masters degree in Interprofessional Health and Social Care Management from Queen’s University Belfast. She completed her PhD at Ulster University in 2020, which focused on the development of an intervention to support children with SLCN. Her doctoral research was underpinned by complexity principles, systems thinking and implementation science and Anita is passionate about how these approaches can support vital improvement work in health and care services. She is responsible for the evaluation of HSCQI’s regional improvement programmes and currently leads the HSCQI Scale and Spread Programme for Delivering Value.