Professor Mary Dixon-Woods

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Director, THIS Institute; The Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies

Mary Dixon-Woods is Director of THIS Institute and the Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Mary’s programme of research is concerned with generating a high quality evidence-base to support improvement and innovation in healthcare. Characteristically using mixed-methods approaches, her work focuses on design and evaluation of programmes to improve quality and safety, culture and behaviour in health systems, and regulation and governance of health research and care. She has a special interest in methodological innovation, including new approaches to evaluating the implementation of AI.

Max Tse

National Audit Office
Samuel Littlejohns

Government Legal Department
Anna Sanders

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Hulya Mustafa

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Rosie Mughal

AstraZeneca
Kawan Patel

NHS England
Marli Silva

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Dr Alan Clamp

Professional Standards Authority
Iain Carter

Chartwell Advisory
Richard Gleave

UK Health Security Agency
Cat Little

Cabinet Office
Fraser Battye

The Strategy Unit
Dr Amanda Woolley

Freelance
Dr Louise Wood CBE

Northern Health Alliance Ltd
Dr Felix Greaves

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Dr Malte Gerhold

The Health Foundation
Michael Macdonnell

Sensyne Health
Sir Chris Wormald

Cabinet Office, UK Civil Service

Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge

The Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies

  • 23 September 2019, 5:30pm

    Citizen science: reshaping relations between science, government and citizens

    In this lecture, Johannes Vogel will set out his vision for citizen science. This vision underpins ambitious plans to transform the Berlin Natural History Museum and place it at the heart of democratic engagement with the grand challenges of the 21st century.

  • 8 February 2017, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture 2017: Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health

    There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades.