“I am slowly settling back, but it’s hard!” says Isabelle Bertrand, who recently completed her six-month fellowship with IntraHealth. “I’m missing Senegal very much.”

IntraHealth International will lead a new USAID-funded global project to improve health services in the developing world by strengthening the health care workforce. The Human Resources for Health and Quality Services (HRHQS) Project will increase the quantity of available health workers and the quality of services by working with global organizations and developing country institutions to test and roll out successful workforce planning, retention, recruitment, training and deployment interventions. 

October 20, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC—IntraHealth International has been awarded a new 5-year global cooperative agreement, with a $300 million ceiling, by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve the quality of health services in the developing world by strengthening the health care workforce. Worldwide, there is a shortfall of 4 million health workers needed to increase access to critical primary health care services, and 57 countries fall short of the World Health Organization’s minimum ratio of 2.3 health workers for every 1,000 people.