Martha Hayward

Martha Donovan Hayward joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in March 2011 as the Lead for Public and Patient Engagement. The focus of her work at IHI is to bring patients and families into the design of all work at IHI to accelerate improvement by engaging patients and their families at all levels of care, design and decision making. A cancer survivor herself, she is a founding board member of the nonprofit Women’s Health Exchange and served on the Patient and Family Advisory Council of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Her career experience includes over 20 years in communications, marketing and fundraising in the areas of health, politics, and education. Most recently, as Executive Director at The Partnership for Healthcare Excellence, she brought a particular focus on, and considerable experience in, the area of patient advocacy.