My Expertise
- Safety and quality in health care
- Patient and clinician experience in health care
- Health services leadership and management
- Disclosure of adverse safety events in health care
- Consumer engagement in healthcare
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Biography
Associate Professor Reema Harrison is an Applied Health Psychologist in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM), with interests in quality and safety in healthcare and health service delivery. Reema has a BSc (hons) Psychology, MSc Health Psychology and PhD in the psychology of patient safety all from the University of Leeds (UK). Her research program explores clinician and patient experience of healthcare, specifically in...view more
Associate Professor Reema Harrison is an Applied Health Psychologist in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM), with interests in quality and safety in healthcare and health service delivery. Reema has a BSc (hons) Psychology, MSc Health Psychology and PhD in the psychology of patient safety all from the University of Leeds (UK). Her research program explores clinician and patient experience of healthcare, specifically in relation to medical errors and adverse events. She also leads and supervises a range of health services management research related to promoting learning from adverse safety events, the use and quality of clinical supervision and mentorship to enhance patient safety, quality and patient safety issues in developing countries and change management in health systems and services. Reema is Director of Health Management Programs in the SPHCM, convening tcourse courses in strategic leadership, clinical governance and risk management that reflect her research interests.
My Grants
2020
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Enhancing safety and care quality amongst culturally and linguistically diverse cancer consumers: A consumer engagement approach
Associate Professor Reema Harrison, Professor Merrilyn Walton, Professor Elizabeth Manias, Professor Carlene Wilson, Dr Holly Seale, Professor Afaf Girgis, Dr Ben Smith
$417, 809.
2019
Cancer Australia
Co-designing patient engagement strategies for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) cancer consumers
Dr Reema Harrison, Professor Merrilyn Walton, Professor Elizabeth Manias, Professor Carlene Wilson, Dr Desiree Leone, Monika Latanik, Dr Melvin Chin, Dr Meron Pitcher, Dr Helen Crowther, Dr Holly Seale.
$119,660
2019
Clinical Excellence Commission
Serious Incident Investigation
Dr Reema Harrison, Professor Elizabeth Manias, Mr Steven Mears, Laurel Mimmo, Ashfaq Chauhan
$25,000
2018
Cancer Institute New South Wales
Addressing unwarranted clinical variation
Dr Reema Harrison, Dr Reece Hinchcliff, Professor Elizabeth Manias, Mr Steven Mears, A/Professor David Heslop
$26,000 AUD
2017
New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation
Reducing unwarranted clinical variation
Dr Reema Harrison, Dr Reece Hinchcliff, Professor Elizabeth Manias, Mr Steven Mears, A/Professor David Heslop
$35,000 AUD
2017
Scientia Education Innovation Fund
Designing, piloting and evaluating a process for formative peer-review of teaching
Dr Chinthaka Balasooriya, Dr Lois Meyer, Dr Reema Harrison, Dr Patrick Rawstorne, Dr Husna Razee
$45,000 AUD
2016
Shanghai Hospital Development Center (Municipal Level Grant)
Strategy research on building international scientific research transformation platform
Dr Dai Hui Li, Dr Wang Chunming, Prof. Raina MacIntyre, Dr Chinthaka Balasooriya, Dr Reema Harrison, Dr Kong Xianming, Dr Zhou Yin, Dr Fei Xin, Dr Yang Xiaoqiu
$6000 AUD
2015
Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care
Patients experiences in Australian hospitals
Dr Reema Harrison, Professor Merrilyn Walton, Professor Elizabeth Manias, Mr Steven Mears
$26,000
2015
Sydney South-East Asia Centre Cluster Grant
Managing medical errors: Promoting learning over blame amongst health professionals
Dr Reema Harrison, Professor Merrilyn Walton, Mr Esmond Esguerra, Dr Dang Van Duong
$8,995 AUD
2014
Academic Career Development Scheme
School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Dr Reema Harrison
$2000 AUD
2013
Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Early Career Researcher Conference Travel Scheme
Dr Reema Harrison
$3000 AUD
2013
School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Grant Preparation Scheme
Professor Merrilyn Walton & Dr Reema Harrison
$3000 AUD
2012
International Visits Scheme
Bradford Institute for Health Research
Reema Harrison
600GBP
2012
Public Engagement Grant
Yorkshire and Humber Research Design Service
Dr Reema Sirriyeh
600GBP
2012
University of York
International Seedcorn Award
Professor Yvonne Birks & Dr Reema Sirriyeh
2000GBP
2010
British Psychological Society
Overseas Travel Grant
Reema Sirriyeh
600GBP
2008-2011
Bradford Institute for Health Research
Funded PhD Studentship
Reema Sirriyeh
My Qualifications
2008-2011 – PhD Institute of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, England.
2007-2008 – MSc Psychological Approaches to Health (Distinction), Institute of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, England.
2002 – 2005 – BSc Psychology (2:1), Institute of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, England.
My Awards
2018 - UNSW Medicine Teaching Excellence: Early Career Academic Staff Award
2018 – UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine: ‘All rounder’ in Teaching and Research Award
2017 - UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine: Young Investigator Prize
My Research Activities
My Research Supervision
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Areas of supervision
- Patient safety and healthcare quality
- Patient and clinician experience and engagement
- Change management and strategic change in health systems and services
- Health service delivery
My Teaching
Current course convening:
PHCM9391 Strategy, Policy and Change, Master of Health Management, UNSW Sydney.
PHCM 9748 Clinical Governance and Risk Management, UNSW Sydney.
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-9827