Professor Jane O'Hara

    Professor Jane O’Hara is Director of Research at The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, at the University of Cambridge. She leads the Safer Systems, Cultures and Practices theme within the NIHR Yorkshire & Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (running 2023-2028) and leads a large NIHR-funded programme evaluating the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (May 2022-July 2025). Jane also holds Visiting Professor positions at the University of Leeds, and the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare at the University of Stavanger, Norway. 

Jane has nearly fifteen years’ experience leading patient safety research, and a further eight years of applied psychological research prior to that. She has received funding from THIS Institute, the Trondheim Foundation and Research Council of Norway, and the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health Research, and the NIHR Policy Research Unit programme. 

Jane has a broad range of research interests including engaging patients and families in care quality and safety; measurement and monitoring of patient safety; safety theory and resilient healthcare approaches; co-production; and, quality and safety intervention development and testing.