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:

• Eradicate disparities impacting outcomes
• Advance maternal health improvement
• Center equity across systems and strategy
• Apply locally contextualized solutions
• Build alliances across care communities
• Strengthen long-term local capability

Across all geographies and settings, IHI's consulting approach establishes structures and processes that cascade expert strategies throughout the organization and beyond.

We provide culturally safe care frameworks grounded in the lived experience of the communities served, helping organizations design solutions that reflect local realities and community needs.

Our teams apply the full quality improvement process — including PDSA cycles, root cause analysis, and outcome measurement — to test, learn, refine, and spread what works across systems and populations.

Through this approach, organizations strengthen improvement capability, build sustainable systems, and create measurable progress in maternal and infant health outcomes over time.

• 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.

• 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 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 in 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 improvement for maternal and infant health outcomes.

• Human-Centered Design Training in Bangladesh Emphasized Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration 

• Improving Health Care Around the World, One Child at a Time

• Data Gives Patients a Voice: Lessons Learned about Maternal Health Equity 

• Project Aisha: Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth

• “Golden Hour” Collaboratives – minutes that save lives

• Using Home Blood Pressure Checks and Text Reminders to Reduce Postpartum Maternal Mortality 

• Making It Easier for Postpartum Patients to Get the Care They Need