Jeffrey Brady, MD

Jeffrey Brady, MD, has served as the director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research Quality's Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety since 2014. He is as a member of the AHRQ Senior Leadership Team and leads a part of the agency that conducts several AHRQ programs, including Patient Safety Research; Healthcare-Associated Infections Prevention; Patient Safety Organization Program; National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Report Program; and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Program.

Brady led the AHRQ Patient Safety Research Program from 2009 to 2014. In a prior position at AHRQ, he led the team that produces the NHQDR, an annual report to Congress on the status of healthcare quality in the United States.

Before moving to AHRQ in December 2006, Brady served as a medical officer and clinical reviewer for the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Vaccines. Additionally, he has held positions as a medical epidemiologist for the Department of Defense and primary care physician in the U.S. Navy.

Brady attended the Medical College of Georgia, completed internship training in internal medicine at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, and earned a master's degree in public health from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He completed the Navy's General Preventive Medicine Residency, also at USUHS, and is board-certified in public health and general preventive medicine.