Getting Results at Scale
On 1st June 2015 we were delighted to be joined by Dr Pierre Barker, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
Pierre delivered a masterclass on the scale up and spread of improvement to an audience including wave 1 and 2 improvement science in action graduates.
This is his presentation from the masterclass.
Pierre M. Barker, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is responsible for IHI’s large-scale health systems improvement initiatives outside the USA. Dr. Barker attended medical school in South Africa and trained in pediatrics in the UK and US. Before joining IHI, he was Medical Director of University of North Carolina (UNC) Children’s Hospital clinics and was responsible for leading health-system-wide initiatives on improving access to care and chronic disease management. A renowned authority on improving health systems,
Dr. Barker initially served at IHI as in-country Director of IHI’s South Africa Projects and then as head of IHI programs in low- and middle-income countries. He retains a position of Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Maternal and Child Health Department at Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill. He also advises the World Health Organization on health systems strengthening, redesign of HIV care, and infant feeding guidelines
