Olivia Lounsbury

Olivia focuses on system design and organisational alignment for healthcare improvement in both academic research and applied work. She is particularly interested in how strategic and operational systems can be designed to support safer, more effective care across complex environments.

At the University of Oxford, she serves as Associate Course Director for the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice and PGCert in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement and as an Enterprise and Innovation Fellow through the Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences Division. In these roles, she focuses on the human-centred design and implementation of healthcare improvement initiatives that are aligned at every level of the organisation.

In addition to her work at the intersection of system design and organisational alignment, her portfolio includes digital integration and AI governance in healthcare organisations, social impact measurement in global health, and product strategy in the pharmaceutical industry. She is particularly interested in cross-sector collaboration and systems thinking as tools for operational excellence.

She has collaborated with organizations including The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the NHS, the U.S. Veterans Health Administration, and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. Her research is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, BMJ Medical Informatics, Human Factors in Healthcare, Health Policy and Technology, and others, and she frequently presents at international conferences on healthcare quality, safety, human factors, and system design.