Project Director, IHI; USA

Jafet Arrieta, MD, MMSc, is a Project Director and Improvement Advisor for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). She supports the development and implementation of quality improvement projects across Latin America and the United States, teaches QI methods, and provides coaching and support to leaders, managers, and team members throughout the implementation of their projects.

She has extensive experience in operational, oversight, management, and leadership roles within the areas of public health, quality improvement, and health systems strengthening across different low-, middle-, and high-resource settings.

Dr. Arrieta previously served as Improvement Advisor for the Latin American Consortium for Innovation, Quality and Safety in Healthcare (CLICSS), leading the implementation of two multi-country QI collaboratives aimed at reducing the incidence of healthcare-associated infections in Latin America, and as Director of Operations for Partners In Health Mexico, helping establish a public-private partnership with the Ministry of Health of the state of Chiapas aimed at improving access to high quality care in one of the most underserved regions of Mexico.

She is a third-year student in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Doctor of Public Health program, and holds a medical degree from Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine, and a Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery degree from Harvard Medical School.