Jafet Arrieta, MD, MMSc

Project Director and Improvement Advisor, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

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 (QI) projects and teaches QI methods across Latin America and the United States. She has extensive experience in operational, oversight, management, and leadership roles within the areas of public health, quality improvement, and health systems strengthening. Jafet 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 improving patient safety in Latin American hospitals, 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 to improve access to high quality care in one of the most underserved regions of Mexico. She holds a Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery degree from Harvard Medical School, and is finishing a Doctor of Public Health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.