Where We Work
Expertise with Global Reach
IHI has worked in 62 countries globally, with teams on 6 continents.
Consulting and implementation support is tailored to meet your goals and accelerate improvement.
Select a region to view examples of our consulting work.
Africa
Saving Lives After Surgery
Multiple countries in AfricaPartnership with University of Cape Town, Queen Mary University of London, and the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research to build an effective, scalable model of care to reduce postoperative mortality in African hospitals by 25 percent.
Ethiopia National Health Care Quality Strategy
EthiopiaPartnership with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, to foster a culture of quality throughout the Ethiopian health system and reduce maternal and neonatal mortality.
Project Fives Alive!
GhanaPartnership with Ghana Health Service and the National Catholic Health Service, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to reduce under-5 mortality and morbidity in Ghana.
Asia–Pacific
National Preterm Birth Prevention Collaborative
AustraliaPartnership with Safer Care Victoria, the Australian Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance, and Women’s Healthcare Australia to safely reduce the rate of preterm and early birth by 20 percent across Australia.
Timely Emergency Care Collaborative
AustraliaPartnership with Victoria State Government’s Department of Health to improve patient flow and reduce the length of stay in participating hospital emergency departments by 15 percent for non-admitted patients and by 20 percent for admitted patients.
Accelerating Quality Improvement
SingaporePartnership with Singapore’s Ministry of Health to build capacity and capability for quality improvement across Singapore’s health system.
Europe
Building a Culture of Improvement
EnglandPartnership with East London NHS Foundation Trust, a provider of community health, mental health, primary care, and specialist services, to teach and embed quality improvement methodology throughout the Trust.
Reduce Race-Related Maternal and Neonatal Mortality and Morbidity
EnglandPartnership with the UK’s Health Foundation and NHS Race & Health Observatory to reduce race-related maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity by designing and testing change packages in four focus areas: postpartum hemorrhage, maternal mental health, preterm births, and gestational diabetes.
STOP Hospital Infection!
PortugalPartnership with The Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese government to reduce four common hospital-acquired infections — ventilator-associated pneumonias, surgical site infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and central line-associated bloodstream infections — by 50 percent in 12 hospitals.
Latin America
“Golden Hour” Improvement Science in Action
11 countries across Latin AmericaPartnership with St. Jude Global to increase the percentage of febrile pediatric hemato-oncology patients (PHOPf) who present to the emergency room (or equivalent) and who receive the first dose of antibiotic in less than 60 minutes.
CuidARTE Collaborative
MexicoPartnership with Amexcasep with funding from Johnson & Johnson Foundation, this Breakthrough Series Collaborative aims to increase levels of joy in work and thriving from work in 25 secondary and tertiary care hospitals in Mexico.
Cuidado Integral a Saúde (Comprehensive Health Care)
BrazilPublic-private partnership in Brazil aimed at improving primary care within the private health care system, moving from Demonstration (Phase 1) to Adaptation (Phase 2).
Middle East
Strategic Partnership with Hamad Medical Corporation
QatarA multi-year partnership, initiated in 2013, to improve safety and quality throughout Hamad Medical Corporation, with the latest phases of work focusing on value improvement, age-friendly care, and system-wide patient flow.
Age-Friendly Health Systems: Saudi Arabia
Saudi ArabiaBreakthrough Series Collaborative in partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs to implement an Age-Friendly Health Systems approach to improving care for older adults.
North America
HealthyNYC
USAPartnership with New York City’s Department of Health to improve life expectancy in New York City to age 83 by 2030 by focusing on seven major causes of death: cardiometabolic diseases, screenable cancers, COVID-19, opioid overdose, suicide, homicide, and maternal mortality.
Medi-Cal Child and Behavioral Health Collaboratives
USAPartnership with California’s Department of Heath Care Services to build capability and capacity in applying quality improvement and equitable care tools and methods in all 26 of California’s Managed Care Plans.
Lung Transplant Collaborative
USAPartnership with Lung Bioengineering (part of United Therapeutics) to increase the volume of lung transplants, using a Breakthrough Series Collaborative approach, by 30 percent across nearly half of all lung transplant programs by June 2026.
Solutions for Your Challenges
IHI can help you tackle your biggest challenges. We co-design solutions with you based on your unique context, opportunities for improvement, and assets to enable your organization and teams to adopt proven practices that improve individual and population health.
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