Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); India

Abha Mehndiratta, MBBS, DCH, DNB, MPH is Director for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and is supporting Bihar Government’s Continuous Quality Improvement (QI) Collaborative and the MaMoni project’s QI Learning Network in Bangladesh, to improve clinical outcomes of mothers and newborns. She is also working as a Senior Advisor to the Global Health and Development Group at Imperial College London for greater use of evidence in formulating healthcare policy in India. Previously, Abha has worked as a Consultant for the World Bank, the National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) and ACCESS Health International.

She is a pediatrician by training and completed her degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fulbright scholar.