Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); USA

Jafet Arrieta currently serves as a Vice President for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Jafet leads IHI’s portfolio in the Latin America region and Measurement, Evaluation, Learning & Dissemination (MEL-D). In her role, she supports global partners in the design and implementation of large-scale quality improvement and health system strengthening initiatives and oversees global efforts to advance improvement science through MEL-D activities. Dr. Arrieta has extensive experience in operational, oversight, management, and leadership roles within the areas of public health, quality improvement and health systems strengthening across low-, middle-, and high-resource settings. Dr. Arrieta is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also serves as a Policy Advisor for Partners in Health and is an Associate Faculty of Ariadne Labs. Dr. Arrieta previously served as Director of Operations for Partners In Health Mexico. Dr. Arrieta holds a medical degree from Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine, a Doctorate of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Masters of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery degree from Harvard Medical School.