Jeffrey Braithwaite
International Senior Fellow
Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Macquarie University
Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Adjunct Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Macquarie University
Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Adjunct Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Expertise
- Health services governance and management, international health reform, health systems improvement, organisational cultures and structures, patient safety, standards and accreditation, leadership and management, quality and safety in healthcare
Event Reports
April 12, 2018, 15:30 - 17:30
Jeffrey Braithwaite Seminar "Health Reform Success Stories from 60 Countries"
November 13, 2012, 15:00 - 17:00
CIGS Seminar："Health Reform in Australia and Care Track Report"
September 20, 2011, 15:00 - 16:30
CIGS Seminar："How has health reform in Australia been progressing since 2010?"
Profile
Education
| 2017 | Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences |
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| 2016 | International Member, WHO Global Patient Safety Network |
| 2016 | Honorary Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA), Australia |
| 2015 | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2014 | Fellow in the distinction grade, Faculty of Public Health, Royal Colleges of Physicians, United Kingdom |
| 2001 | Fellow, Australian College of Health Service Management |
| 2000 | Fellow, Australian Institute of Management |
| 2000 | PhD in Organisational Behaviour, University of New South Wales, Australia |
| 1996 | Master of Business Administration, Macquarie University, Australia |
| 1995 | Master of Industrial Relations (Honours I), University of Sydney, Australia |
| 1988 | Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and History, University of New England, Australia |
| 1980 | Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations and the Law, University of Sydney, Australia |
Career
| 2018-2021 | Ministerial Appointment for the Triennium, NHMRC’s Research Committee |
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| 2018 – present | Member of the Cancer Australia Research and Data Advisory Group |
| 2017 – present | Member of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Innovation Assessment Working group |
| 2017 – present | Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia |
| 2016 – present | Committee Chair NHMRC Targeted Call for Research (TCR) Prioritisation Working committee |
| 2014 – present | Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia |
| 2014 – present | Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia (previously, University of New South Wales, 2007-2014) |
| 2014 – present | Director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia (previously, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, University of New South Wales, 2001-2014) |
| 2013 – present | Chair, NHMRC CareTrack Kids Management Committee |
| 2012 – present | Senior International Fellow, The Canon Institute for Global Studies |
| 2012 – present | Board Member, Royal Australasian College Medical Administrators |
| 2012 – present | Judge, St Vincent’s Hospital Quality Awards |
| 2010 – present | Founding Member, Climate and Health Alliance [CAHA] |
| 2009 – present | Board Member, The Baird Institute for Cardiothoracic Research |
| 2009 – present | Chair, AIHI NHMRC Patient Safety Program Grant Management Committee |
| 2004 – present | Founding Member, Hospital Reform Group |
| 2003 – present | External Assessor, NHMRC |
| 2003 – present | Assessor; Expert of International standing, Australian Research Council |
| 2002 – present | Judge, NSW Health Baxter Awards |
| 2002 – present | Founding Member, Australian Health Care Reform Alliance |
Public Contributions, International
| 2019-2021 | Technical Advisor Committee (TAG) to the Regional Director, Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) |
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| 2018 | Scientific Advisor, Austrian Academy, Vienna, Australia |
| 2018 | Chair Scientific Advisory Board, TOPPFORSK Program in Resilient Health Care, Universitetet Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway |
| 2018 | Member of the Scientific Committee, Organizational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference, Montreal, Canada |
| 2018-2021 | Advisory Board Member, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
| 2017-2019 | President Elect, International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) |
| 2017 – present | International Member, Partners at Care Transitions – Pact: Scientific Steering Group, NIHR Funded project with Leeds University, United Kingdom |
| 2001 – present | International Core Group Member, The Resilient Health Care Network |
| 2007 – present | Member, International Society for the Study of Organising for Health Care [SHOC] |
Publications
- Hollnagel, E., Braithwaite, J., Wears, RL. (eds) (2018) Delivering Resilient Health Care. Abingdon, UK, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 978-113-860-225-0.
- Braithwaite, J., Mannion, R., Matsuyama, Y., Shekelle, P., Whittaker, S. and Al-Adawai, S. (eds) (2018) Health Care Systems: Future Predictions for Global Care, Boca Raton, Florida, Taylor & Francis. ISBN: 978-1138-0526-04.
- Braithwaite, J., Mannion, R., Matsuyama, Y., Shekelle, P., Whittaker, S. and Al-Adawai, S. (2018) (In Press) Health Care Systems: Future Predictions for Global Care, Boca Raton, Florida, Taylor & Francis.
- Braithwaite, J., Mannion, R., Matsuyama, Y., Shekelle, P., Whittaker, S. and Al-Adawi, S. (eds) (2017) Health Systems Improvement Across the Globe: Success Stories from 60 Countries. Boca Raton, Florida, Taylor & Francis. ISBN: 978-1472482044.
- Braithwaite, J., Wears, R. and Hollnagel, E. (eds) (2017) Resilient Health Care Vol. 3: Reconciling Work-as-Imagined and Work-as-Done, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
- Allen, D., Braithwaite, J., Sandall, J. and Waring, J. (eds) (2016) The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality, Chichester, West Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-119-27634-0.
- Braithwaite, J., Matsuyama, Y., Mannion, R. and Johnson, J. (eds) (2015) Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries, London, Ashgate. ISBN: 978-1-4724-5140-8.
- Wears, R., Hollnagel, E. and Braithwaite, J. (eds) (2015) Resilient Health Care Vol. 2: The resilience of everyday clinical work, London, Ashgate. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3782-2.
- Hollnagel, E., Braithwaite, J., Wears, R. (eds) (2013) Resilient Health Care, London, Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-6978-0
- Braithwaite, J., Hyde, P. and Pope, C. (eds) (2010) Culture and climate in health care organizations, London, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-58465-5
Papers
Selected Papers
- Tran, Y., Lamprell, K., Nic Giolla Easpaig, B., Arnolda, G. and Braithwaite, J. (2018) What information do patients want across their cancer journeys? A network analysis of cancer patients’ information needs. Cancer Medicine. doi: 10.1002/cam4.1915. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cam4.1915]
- Rapport, F. and Braithwaite, J. (2018) Are we on the cusp of a fourth research paradigm? Predicting the future for a new approach to methods-use in medical and health services research. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 18(131). doi: 10.1186/s12874-018-0597-4. [https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-018-0597-4]
- Braithwaite, J., Hibbert, P., Jaffe, A., White L., Cowell, C., Harris, M., Runciman, W., Hallahan, AR., Wheaton, G., Williams, H., Murphy, E., Molloy, CJ., Wiles, LK., Ramanathan, S., Arnolda, G., Ting, HP., Hooper, TD., Szabo, N., Wakefield, JG., Hughes, CF., Schmiede, A., Dalton, C., Dalton, S., Holt, J., Donaldson, L., Kelley, E., Lilford, R., Lachman, P. and Muething, S. (2018) The quality of health care for children in Australia, 2012-2013. Journal of the American Medical Association, 319(11):1113-1124. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.0162. [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2675548]
- Amalberti, R., Vincent, C., Nicklin, W. and Braithwaite, J. (2018) Coping with more people with more illness. Part 1: the nature of the challenge and the implications for safety and quality. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, myx235. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzy235. [https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/intqhc/mzy235/5196520]
- Braithwaite, J., Vincent, C., Nicklin, W. and Amalberti, R. (2018) Coping with more people with more illness. Part 2: new generation of standards for enabling healthcare system transformation and sustainability. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, mzy236. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzy236. [https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/intqhc/mzy236/5200491?guestAccessKey=fecb1a5e-3ef2-463f-85fa-a0b003c09a82]
- Braithwaite, J. (2018) Changing how we think about healthcare improvement. The BMJ, 361:k2014. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2014. [https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2014.abstract]
- Braithwaite, J., Ellis, L.A., Churruca, K. and Long, J.C. (2018) The goldilocks effect: the rhythms and pace of hospital life. BMC Health Services Research, 18:529. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3350-0. [https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-018-3350-0]
- Braithwaite, J., Churruca, K., Long, J.C., Ellis, L.A. and Herkes, J. (2018) When complexity science meets implementation science: a theoretical and empirical analysis of systems change. BMC Medicine, 16:63. doi: 10.1186/s12916-018-1057-z. [https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1057-z]
- Rapport, F., Clay-Williams, R., Churruca, K., Shih, P., Hogden, A. and Braithwaite, J. (2018) The struggle of translating science into action: foundational concepts of implementation science. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 24:117–126. doi: 10.1111/jep.12741. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jep.12741]
- Braithwaite, J., Testa, L., Lamprell, G., Herkes, J., Ludlow, K., McPherson, E., Campbell, M. and Holt, J. (2017) Built to last? The sustainability of health system improvements, interventions and change strategies: A study protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 7(11): e018568. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018568. [http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/11/e018568].
- Hibbert, P.D., Thomas, M.J.W., Deakin, A., Runciman, W.B., Braithwaite, J., Lomax, S., Prescott, J., Gorrie, G., Szczygielski, A., Surwald, T. and Fraser, C. (2018) Are root cause analyses recommendations effective and sustainable?: an observational study. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzx181. [https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzx181].
- Mannion, R. and Braithwaite, J. (2017) False dawns and new horizons in patient safety research and practice. International Journal of Health Policy Management, 6(12): 685-689. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.115. [http://www.ijhpm.com/article_3419_0.html]
- Braithwaite, J., Herkes, J., Ludlow, K., Testa, L. and Lamprell, G. (2017) Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient outcomes: systematic review. BMJ Open, 7(11): e017708. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017708. [http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/11/e017708]
- Braithwaite, J., Churruca, K. and Ellis, L.A. (2017) Can we fix the uber-complexities of healthcare? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 110(10): 392-394. doi: 10.1177/0141076817728419. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0141076817728419]
- Braithwaite, J., Churruca, K., Ellis, L.A., Long, J., Clay-Williams, R., Damen, N., Herkes, J., Pomare, C., and Ludlow, K. (2017) Complexity Science in Healthcare – Aspirations, Approaches, Applications and Accomplishments: A White Paper. Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University: Sydney, Australia. ISBN: 978-1-74138-456-7
- Braithwaite, J., Marks, D. and Taylor, N. (2014) Harnessing implementation science to improve care quality and patient safety in complex adaptive systems: a literature review and content analysis. Int J Qual Health Care, 26(3): 321-9.
- Long, J.C., Cunningham, F.C. and Braithwaite J. (2013) Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners in collaborative networks: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res, 13: 158.
- Debono, D., Greenfield, D., Travaglia J., Long, J., Black, D., Johnson, J. and Braithwaite, J. (2013) Nurses’ workarounds in acute healthcare settings. BMC Health Serv Res, 13: 175.