Diversity : Overview of GHFP-II's Diversity Initiative

Efforts to increase and sustain diversity are woven throughout GHFP-II with a multilayered approach to address the issues of representation, retention and promotion of underrepresented communities working in international health with the US Agency for International Development.

Recruitment across the program uses a dynamic ongoing identification, placement and support process based on Agency need. This includes developing new pathways into the field of global health and ensuring that the placement environment is conducive to continued productivity, job satisfaction and upward movement.

By bringing new sources of talent to USAID--through targeted outreach, varied internships and fellowships, and a program for private-sector, short-term fellows, GHFP-II will contribute to the deepening and widening of the GH professional pipeline available to the Agency to implement its global health agenda.

The GHFP-II internship program will work with organizations such as GlobeMed to reach promising undergraduate students lacking financial means through its university-based student-led chapters. Through partnerships  with community based organizations (CBOs) in developing countries, students learn about on-the-ground health work while providing fund raising assistance to the CBO. Similarly, GHFP-II will work with Global Health Corps--an organization focused on mobilizing young people to work in global health--to sponsor year long internships with CBOs in developing countries.