Health equity means ensuring that care quality does not vary because of race, ethnicity, language, geography, income, disability, or other personal characteristics.

The IHI Framework for Achieving Health Equity provides the organizing structure for our work, making equity a priority by addressing the determinants of health, reducing institutional racism, and building community partnerships that extend the reach of equitable care.

Our health equity consulting work supports organizations to:

• Make health equity a strategic priority
• Build structures and processes that support equity work
• Address clinical and social drivers of health within organizational control
• Decrease institutional racism and bias
• Partner with community organizations to improve health and equity

This multi-prong approach enables organizations to align leadership, measurement, and improvement around equitable outcomes and sustain progress over time.

IHI provides consulting, guidance, and capability-building to support health equity improvement across systems and regions.

Our health equity consulting work supports organizations to:

• Assess equity challenges and system dynamics
• Co-design equity-focused improvement strategies with leaders and communities
• Apply improvement science to test, refine, and scale interventions
• Build local skills, data capability, and leadership capacity
• Support spread and sustainability across sites and populations