Lindsay Martin, MSPH

Co-Founder & Principal

Lindsay is a leader in healthcare improvement and innovation, dedicated to system-wide design for more than 20 years. Her work has ranged from:

  • creating improvement and innovation departments in health systems across the world;

  • overhauling healthcare provider processes;

  • developing systems to address the critical challenges at the county, state, and national levels including the Covid 19 pandemic, the opioid crisis, entry points to mental health care, and equitable access to education and healthcare services;

  • engaging employers, providers, and health plans to improve outcomes and decrease costs; and

  • designing quality strategies for Medicaid programs.

Lindsay believes seemingly intractable problems are simply problems that have not been evaluated with the right lens. Her approach involves dismantling problems and simplifying them to their core. Then she researches and maps out the best route to defined outcomes to make everyone’s lives exponentially easier.

Professional Credentials

Current:

  • Instructor of Quality Improvement, Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health 

  • Senior Faculty and Improvement Advisor, The Institute for Healthcare Improvement 

  • Board of Trustees Vice Chair, New England Donor Services

Past Positions:

  • Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health (2020-2023)

  • Executive Director, Innovation; Institute for Healthcare Improvement (2004-2016)

  • Harvard Business Review, Healthcare Insight Center Advisory Committee (2013)

  • Community Health Data Initiative, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; Project Lead (2010)

  • National Quality Forum, Episodes of Care Priority and Goal Setting Steering Committee; Committee Member (2007 – 2009)