Quality and Patient Safety in India

After a workshop led by Professor Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health, and Director, Harvard Global Health Institute With the kick-off workshop in December 2017, the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the Harvard Initiative on Global Health Quality (HIGHQ) will study ways to improve hospital care in India. The project will try to understand existing quality of care barriers and opportunities in India, bringing together leading scholars from Harvard University and India, to define an agenda for healthcare quality, and identify areas of learning and collaboration for cutting-edge empirical work and improvement.

The work will be organized into four main categories, Preliminary Analysis, Indicator Design, Protocol Development and Scalability, Education and Capacity Building. India Research Center will be playing a pivotal role in education & capacity building to support the research project.