Project Director
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Ashley Jackson is a Project Director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) working on multiple population health and equity initiatives. She currently leads the Healthcare Organization and Individual Practitioners pillars for the Rise to Health Coalition. She started her career working for a health system in Delaware on a variety of community and quality-based initiatives. As a community educator she designed and led health education programming across high schools and organizations throughout the state. Ashley was also part of a team working with prenatal and postpartum women to promote the wellbeing of mother and baby from conception to birth. Ashley was introduced to quality improvement while leading her hospital as a participant of the Best Fed Beginnings initiative, a national quality improvement initiative to increase breastfeeding rates and Baby-Friendly designated hospitals. This experience led her to designing and facilitating Learning Collaboratives for organizations in Massachusetts, implementing Community Health Worker-led Asthma Home Visit programs, to better support high-risk pediatric patients. Ashley led a team of quality improvement specialists in North Carolina to provide technical assistance to healthcare organizations implementing best practices for teen sexual and reproductive healthcare. Ashley is passionate about weaving quality improvement and health equity efforts into organizations.
CSuE1 - Building a Foundation to Engage Health Care Leaders to Center Equity and Justice
Sunday, August 25, 2024
8:45 AM – 10:00 AM ET