Anne-Marie Suutari

Postdoc Researcher
Department for quality improvement and leadership , School of Health and Welfare
Presentation Publications

Anne-Marie Suutari’s research focuses on quality improvement in health and social care, with a particular emphasis on heart failure, integrated care, and person-centred approaches. Co-produced quality improvement, that is, developing and improving healthcare together with patients, family members, and healthcare professionals, is a central part of her research.

Anne-Marie’s postdoctoral project aims to increase knowledge about how care for migrants living with heart failure can be developed and improved. By studying healthcare outcomes, identifying the needs of patients and family members, and co-producing and evaluating new ways of working together with healthcare professionals, the project seeks to contribute to more equitable, person-centred, and needs-based heart failure care. She also investigates the organisational conditions required to support the transition towards Sweden’s “Close Care” (Nära vård) model.

Anne-Marie is a former student of the Master’s Programme in Quality Improvement and Leadership in Health and Welfare at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University. In spring 2023, she completed her PhD with the thesis Co-producing healthcare quality improvement: the prerequisites for, the value of and the lessons from co-production in a Swedish cardiac care setting. Since January 2025, she has been a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the research environment Studies on Integrated Health and Welfare (SIHW).

At the Department of Quality Improvement and Leadership, she teaches and supervises students in the Master’s Programme in Quality Improvement and Leadership and participates in research projects focusing on co-production and quality improvement in health and social care. In 2023, she was named Alumna of the Year by the School of Health and Welfare. Anne-Marie is a licensed pharmacist and has a clinical background as a senior consultant in internal medicine and cardiology.

Article

Sterner, A., Skyvell Nilsson, M., Areskoug Josefsson, K., Suutari, A., Eklund, A. (2026). Transition programs for newly graduated nurses - A resource during the first months of the profession? An exploratory cross-sectional study Contemporary Nurse: health care across the lifespan. More information
Suutari, A., Thor, J., Nordin, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2023). Improving heart failure care with an Experience-Based Co-Design approach: what matters to persons with heart failure and their family members? BMC Health Services Research, 23(1). More information
Suutari, A., Nordin, A., Kjellström, S., Thor, J., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2022). Using stakeholders' experiences to redesign health services for persons living with heart failure: a case study protocol in a Swedish cardiac care setting [Protocol] BMJ Open, 12(3). More information
Suutari, A., Thor, J., Nordin, A., Kjellström, S., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2021). Improving Health for People Living With Heart Failure: Focus Group Study of Preconditions for Co-Production of Health and Care Journal of Participatory Medicine, 13(2). More information
Suutari, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K., Kjellström, S., Nordin, A., Thor, J. (2019). Promoting a sense of security in everyday life—A case study of patients and professionals moving towards co-production in an atrial fibrillation “learning café” Health Expectations, 22(6), 1240-1250. More information

Doctoral thesis

Suutari, A. (2023). Co-producing healthcare quality improvement: the prerequisites for, the value of and the lessons from co-production in a Swedish cardiac care setting (Doctoral thesis, Jönköping: Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare). More information

Conference paper

Salmiranta, E. Dinu Billström, M. Kjellström, S. Lundqvist, C. Masterson, D. Suutari, A. , ... Ockander M. (2025). Exploring co-production through a letter-writing process. Co-Production and Co-Creation Annual Conference 2025, Ghent, Belgium, 22-23 May 2025. More information
Ockander, M. Dinu Billström, M. Kjellström, S. Lundqvist, C. Salmiranta, E. Suutari, A. , ... Masterson D. (2025). Navigating Blended Co-production: Participant Experiences and Shared Learning. Co-Production and Co-Creation Annual Conference 2025, Ghent, Belgium, 22-23 May 2025. More information
Suutari, A. (2022). What matters to persons with heart disease, their family members and healthcare professionals? Co-learning about healthcare quality improvement in a Swedish cardiac care setting. Trollhättan: University West, WIL'22 International Conference on Work Integrated Learning, 7-9 December 2022, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden. More information
Suutari, A. (2022). Co-producing Health and Care Services – Perspectives from Cardiac Care. SynEnergy, The Microsystem Festival, March 2 – March 4, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden. More information
Suutari, A. (2020). Thesis in progress - Perspectives on co-production in a Swedish chronic cardiac care setting. IIAS Study Group on the Co-Production of Public Services, University of Haifa, Israel, 10 November 2020. More information
Suutari, A., Thor, J. (2018). ‘Learning Café’ group education program with atrial fibrillation patients – a model for co-production. International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 2-4 May 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More information

Other publications

Suutari, A., Thor, J., Nordin, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K. . Experiences of and conditions for re-designing heart failure care – a qualitative evaluation of an Experience-Based Co-Design case in a Swedish cardiac care setting. More information