Alan Card
Pronouns: He/Him
Assistant Professor
Global Health Management & Policy
SDSU
Bio
Alan J. Card, PhD, MPH, DFASHRM, CPHQ, CPHRM is an Assistant Professor at the San Diego State University School of Public Health and Director of the Systems Design for Health and Care Improvement Laboratory (SD-HACIL). His work has primarily focused on three key areas:
- Meta-improvement (improving how health and care organizations improve, by advancing the theories, frameworks, tools, and techniques that guide improvement practice––with a particular focus on patient safety, healthcare worker wellbeing, and intervention design/risk control);
- Psychosocial safety as a focus for patient safety and healthcare worker safety efforts; and
- Improvement practice as a profession.
In recent years, he has extended his focus on meta-improvement to include systems design for health improvement more generally, through work on the biopsychosociotechnical model.
Education
- PhD, University of Cambridge / Engineering Design Centre, 2013. Major field: Engineering Design (Intervention Design for Patient Safety)
- MPH, University of South Florida, 2006. Major field: Global Communicable Disease
- BA, Thomas Edison State College, 2004. Major field: Social Science / History
Areas of Specialization
Patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, healthcare worker wellbeing, psychosocial safety, risk control / intervention design, biopsychosociotechnical approaches, design thinking, systems thinking, human factors / macroergonomics, meta-improvement, professionalization and practice in the systems improvement disciplines (e.g., patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, performance improvement, etc.)