Jill Harrison

Jill Harrison, PhD, is an Executive Director at the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Prior to joining the IMPACT ollaboratory, Dr. Harrison served as the Director of Research for an international non-profit advocacy organization, founded by a patient and focused on implementing person-centered care initiatives in healthcare organizations in 27 countries. She served on the advisory panel for patient engagement at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and was the principal investigator of a PCORI Engagement Award about how patient-family advisory councils engage in research. Her research interests include: pragmatic trials in real-world settings, engaging residents of long-term care communities as evaluators of care quality, developing culturally congruent person-centered care approaches in healthcare systems, and organizational cultural change. She completed her post-doctorate at Brown University in health services research.