Director of Research, The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, University of Cambridge; England

Professor Jane O’Hara is Director of Research at The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, at the University of Cambridge. Currently, she leads the Safer Systems, Cultures and Practices theme within the NIHR Yorkshire & Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (running 2023-2028), and a large NIHR-funded programme evaluating the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (May 2022-July 2025), alongside an ongoing quality and safety research portfolio. Jane holds Visiting Professor positions at the University of Leeds, and the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare at the University of
Stavanger, Norway. She has nearly fifteen years’ experience leading patient safety research, and a further eight years of applied psychological research prior to that. Jane has received funding from the Health Foundation, THIS Institute, the Trondheim Foundation and Research Council of Norway, and the NIHR. Jane has a broad range of research interests including engaging patients and families in care quality and safety; measurement and monitoring of patient safety; improving incident investigation and learning; safety theory and resilient healthcare approaches; co-production; and, quality and safety intervention development and testing.