Amelia Brooks, MSc

Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer

A globally recognized patient safety, high reliability and quality improvement expert with a background in human factors, culture change and large scale improvement efforts. Miss Brooks has over 15 years’ experience of driving improvement in healthcare around the world from both internal and consultative roles.

Miss Brooks has worked operationally in management and leadership roles in primary care, acute care, regional and national organizations and most recently completed four years as Senior Director (Europe & Patient Safety) at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) where she remains as Senior Faculty. Miss Brooks has been instrumental in developing theoretical and practical concepts in the field including designing a revised approach to Just Culture and being core faculty for the IHI Patient Safety Executive Development Program.

Miss Brooks is a Generation Q Fellow with the Health Foundation (UK) and regularly presents at international and national conferences. Miss Brooks has supported many organizations on transformational journeys to high reliability and improved quality, including running a European leadership network with senior leader representatives from up to 12 countries at a time. Miss Brooks has contributed to the design and development of several significant contributions to the field including creating the Life QI improvement system in partnership with SeeData.