Heather Buchan, MBChB, FFPHM

Dr Heather Buchan is Director of Implementation Support for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.  She has had a long standing interest in improving care quality. She trained in New Zealand as a public health physician specialising in medical management and became interested in improving uptake of research knowledge while undertaking post-graduate studies in epidemiology as an Oxford Nuffield Medical Scholar. She has worked in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia in hospital, academic and government sectors.