Himi Mathur

Himi begins her doctoral training (DrPH) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health after a versatile experience in healthcare as a dentist, healthcare quality and safety expert, and entrepreneur impacting care delivery and outcomes at all levels of care. She holds a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) from Government Dental College Jaipur, India, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Health Policy and Management from Boston University School of Public Health.

Himi is a Senior Consultant at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Program for Patient Safety and Quality. She leads multiple enterprise-level strategic initiatives to impact the quality of care and reduce patient harm. She is an expert in implementing strategies to reduce system waste, variation, adopt change and develop sustainable, patient-centric interventions. Through her past experiences of direct patient care and field work for an Indian non-profit, she developed deep insights into the prevailing healthcare policies, public and private service delivery, and the models and metrics influencing healthcare decision-making.

During the doctoral program, she plans to expand her work at the nexus of systems thinking, healthcare quality, and patient safety. Her focus is on health system strengthening by translating systems thinking theories and conceptual models into novel frameworks to help transform organizations from reactive problem-solving to proactive self-learning systems. She is a firm believer that healthcare is an indispensable human right and hence founded My Health Circle, a nonprofit based in India with the vision to bring people-centric care through effortless access to health and non-health resources. At Harvard, she aims to build this initiative into a nonprofit organization capable of bridging the gap between diverse individual needs and universally high-quality health services for all.

Himi is an outdoorsy person and loves to be in nature. She enjoys hiking, camping, and biking with friends and family.