Ibis Reproductive Health aims to improve women's reproductive autonomy, choices, and health worldwide. It accomplishes its mission by conducting original clinical and social science research, leveraging existing research, producing educational resources, and promoting policies and practices that support sexual and reproductive rights and health. Ibis works closely with advocates to conceptualize research questions and to help ensure the results of its research lead to positive change in women's lives.

Ibis was founded in 2002 by Charlotte Ellertson to support talented new clinical and social science researchers committed to studying critical, yet often overlooked, topics in the reproductive health field. Charlotte sought to create an organization that would bring together researchers, advocates, and health care providers in order to pursue research that would have measurable impact in women's lives, often challenging the paradigms that govern how reproductive health care is currently offered. With its origins in an unheated church basement and a staff of three, Ibis has grown into a staff of 24 with offices in Cambridge, MA (headquarters), Oakland, CA, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Today Ibis serves as a bridge between the reproductive health research and advocacy communities and works closely with advocate colleagues to select projects that have direct policy relevance and impact. The organization also collaborates with major universities and research institutions and Ibis staff publish widely in peer-reviewed journals.