MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); USA

Pierre M. Barker, MD, MBChB, Chief Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), oversees IHI’s cutting-edge innovation, design, and learning activities, ensuring that practical improvement methods and tools are accessible to all. He has designed effective health improvement interventions across a variety of health systems and economies, and has worked closely with the World Health Organization to help develop a global improvement and implementation strategies. He practiced clinical and academic Pediatrics for more than 30 years in South Africa, UK, and US. He has extensive experience in basic, clinical, and implementation science research and is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Maternal and Child Health Department at Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill.