Reducción de la mortalidad materna e infantil prevenible
Advancing Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Worldwide
Supporting health systems worldwide with the expertise, frameworks, and improvement capability needed to reduce preventable harm, close equity gaps, and strengthen outcomes for mothers, infants, and children.
IHI has worked in 62 countries across six continents, strengthening systems and improving outcomes — especially where inequities are most pronounced.
IHI has worked in 62 countries across six continents, strengthening systems and improving outcomes — especially where inequities are most pronounced. IHI’s maternal and infant health consulting work supports organizations to:
Every Week Counts: Reducing Early Births Across Australia
See how IHI and its partners supported 63 maternity hospitals to achieve a 9.6 percent reduction in early-term births through nationwide collaboration and evidence-based improvement.
Cristina San Román Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo – Ecuador
Especialista en Salud del Departamento de Salud, Nutrición y Población
Especialista en Salud del Departamento de Salud, Nutrición y Población
La participación de la vicepresidenta del IHI elevó significativamente el perfil del proyecto. Su presencia de alto nivel resultó invaluable, en particular para abordar dinámicas interpersonales complejas y consideraciones sobre estilos de trabajo que de otro modo podrían haber pasado desapercibidas.
Pathways to Maternal & Infant Health Improvement
Applying culturally responsive improvement science and locally contextualized strategies to strengthen maternal and infant health outcomes across diverse settings and communities.
Strategies That Scale
Across geographies and care settings, IHI establishes structures and processes that help expert strategies spread throughout organizations and communities.
Community-Centered Solutions
We provide culturally safe care frameworks grounded in lived experience, helping organizations design solutions that reflect local realities and community needs.
Test, Learn, and Improve
Our teams use PDSA cycles, root cause analysis, and outcome measurement to test, refine, and spread effective practices across systems and populations.
Sustainable Capability and Results
Organizations strengthen local improvement capability, build sustainable systems, and achieve measurable progress in maternal and infant health outcomes.
Reducción de la morbilidad y mortalidad materna posparto
How We Work With Your Organization
IHI brings a proven consulting approach to health systems, government agencies, philanthropic funders, and community-based organizations—providing support at every stage, from strategy and implementation to sustained spread.
Assess and Prioritize
IHI works with your leadership to identify the highest-leverage opportunities to reduce maternal and infant mortality and close equity gaps within your specific system context.
Build Internal Capability
IHI equips your clinical teams and improvement staff with QI tools and methods, including PDSA cycles, root cause analysis, and outcome measurement, so improvement capacity stays within your organization.
Co-design with Communities
IHI facilitates co-design with the populations you serve, ensuring that solutions are grounded in local knowledge and cultural context, and that communities are genuine contributors, not passive recipients.
Implement and Spread What Works
IHI supports you to implement evidence-based practices reliably, test adaptations through rapid-cycle learning, and scale successful interventions across sites and jurisdictions.
Measure and Sustain
IHI helps your teams embed ongoing measurement and accountability into standard operations, so results are sustained long after active consulting engagement ends.
Reducing Postpartum Maternal Morbidity
Learn how health systems can make postpartum care safer, more connected, and more equitable. The postpartum period is a critical time to prevent maternal harm and improve equitable care.
The article explores three opportunities to strengthen postpartum care:
Reduce Preventable Harm
Use more reliable care systems to reduce morbidity and mortality.
Strengthen Postpartum Support
Improve discharge, follow-up, education, and connections to services.
Design for Equity
Center the experiences and needs of Black women and other birthing people.
Who We Work With
IHI’s maternal and infant health partnerships span health systems, government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and community-based partners across the globe.
IHI's maternal and infant health consulting partnerships span health systems, government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and community-based partners across the globe.
Ethiopia Ministry of Health
More than a decade of partnership focused on reducing neonatal mortality through whole-system quality improvement, capability building, and co-designed interventions at both local and system levels.
Safer Care Victoria
A strategic partner in the Australian Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance, collaborating on the Every Week Counts national program to reduce preterm birth rates across Australia.
MASS Design Group
Partnered with IHI on the Delivering More project in Bangladesh and Ethiopia, co-designing health facilities that enable safe and respectful maternal and newborn care in underserved communities.
Merck for Mothers
Funder of multiple large-scale maternal health improvement initiatives, including the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network, System Redesign with Black Women Initiative, and IHI’s Learning Community focused on eliminating inequities and reducing postpartum morbidity and mortality.
St. Jude Global
Since 2019, IHI has partnered with St. Jude Global to reduce treatment-related morbidity and mortality among children with cancer globally.
California Department of Health Care Services
Implemented with the Center for Care Innovations and the Child Health Equity Collaborative to improve well-child visit rates among infants and adolescents across California.
Women’s Healthcare Australasia
A key partner in the National Preterm Birth Prevention Collaborative, working alongside IHI to operationalize evidence-based preterm birth prevention across Australian jurisdictions.
National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
Since 2022, IHI has provided training and technical assistance as part of this CDC-funded network, supporting state-based perinatal quality collaboratives to accelerate improvements in maternal and infant health outcomes.
Proyecto Aisha: Partos más seguros, futuros más fuertes
En Nigeria, el Proyecto Aisha contribuyó a reducir la mortalidad materna en un 64 % mediante el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de salud, el apoyo a los equipos de atención de primera línea y la mejora del acceso a partos más seguros. Gracias a la colaboración con la comunidad, la capacitación del personal y la mejora de la calidad, la iniciativa ayudó a que más madres y bebés regresaran a casa sanos y salvos.
Descubre la historia detrás del parto seguro
Recursos sobre salud materna
Salud materna de la población negra: Reduciendo las desigualdades mediante la colaboración comunitaria
Explore publicaciones e informes basados en evidencia que se centren en la reducción de la mortalidad materna e infantil, el fomento de la equidad en el parto y la mejora de los resultados perinatales.
Cuadernos de trabajo para mejorar los resultados maternos (QI)
Utilice herramientas y marcos de mejora prácticos para diseñar, implementar y ampliar las estrategias de salud materna en toda su organización y comunidad.
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Obtenga servicios de consultoría que permitan una mejora sostenible. IHI trabaja con estados, sistemas de salud y equipos clínicos en todo el mundo para implementar las mejores prácticas reconocidas, ampliar rápidamente las innovaciones exitosas y brindar atención equitativa a la salud materna e infantil para todas las poblaciones a las que atienden.
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