Diversity : Overview of GHFP's Diversity Initiative

Efforts to increase and sustain diversity are woven throughout the GHFP 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.

One way of achieving a diverse workforce is to provide internship opportunities to students and graduates of minority serving institutions including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges and Universities. A minority-serving institution (MSI) is an institution of higher education in the US that either historically or currently has an ethnic minority student enrollment of more than 50 percent. MSIs include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs).