John Patrick Browne

Professor John Patrick Browne is a health services researcher at University College Cork (UCC), focusing on improving healthcare quality and safety. He previously led the NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) program at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1998-2008) and served as Principal Investigator for the SIREN programme on urgent care reconfiguration. His roles include Senior Methods Editor at BMJ Quality & Safety.

Education: PhD in Health Psychology from Trinity College Dublin (1997). Professional experience includes extensive work in clinical guidelines development, patient-reported outcomes, and healthcare system evaluation.

Research interests span urgent/emergency care models, surgical outcomes, public vs private healthcare comparisons, and psychometric tools for quality of life measurement. He has led major grants including €1.8M for the HRB Scholars Programme and €1.1M from the European Framework Programme for thyroid hormone research.

Notable contributions include national audits on mastectomy outcomes, systematic reviews on antipsychotic use in dementia, and studies on healthcare reconfiguration impacts. His work emphasizes translating evidence into practice through clinical guidelines and quality improvement initiatives.

Grants: Over €10M secured for projects including breast reconstruction audits, emergency care transformation studies, and chronic disease prevention programs. Collaborations span global institutions like LSHTM and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.

Labs/Teams: Active in UCC's Health Services Research Institute, leading multi-disciplinary teams in health policy analysis and outcomes research.