WOMEN’S HEALTH

Investing in women and adolescent girls for our common future has never been more important. And yet health systems are not always able to support their comprehensive reproductive and maternal health needs.

We’re building on 55+ years of experience and partnership to advance women’s health – from voluntary family planning to critical, but often neglected components of reproductive and maternal healthcare.

Along with our partners, we instill policies and practices to safeguard access to quality, person-centered reproductive and maternal healthcare even in the event of climate-related shocks and other disruptions. This work is grounded in strategic partnerships with governments, the private sector, communities, individuals, and other key stakeholders to innovate and scale person-centered solutions to meet the diverse needs of people, wherever and whenever they need care.

Our Approach
TO REPRODUCTIVE
AND MATERNAL HEALTH

We believe that meaningful healthcare starts with putting people at the center—providing individuals with information, options, tools, and the support they need to take charge of their well-being. By expanding access to innovative self-care solutions, strengthening health systems and markets, equipping the providers who deliver care, and leveraging technology to break down barriers, we help communities and individuals lead the way in shaping their own health and futures.

Scaling person-centered, quality care

We take a holistic approach to quality of care designed around principles of respect and tailored support that leads to a positive experience and improved health outcomes. Our teams are locally rooted, giving us a deep understanding of how individual and societal behaviors influence healthcare decisions and experience of care, applying these insights to inform policy, generate demand, and address capacity gaps at each level of the health system. Through our commitment to evidence-based decision-making, we are setting the stage for transformative changes in person-centered reproductive and maternal healthcare.

Accelerating access to self-care solutions

Self-care interventions reduce stress on health systems. We specialize in understanding the challenges of self-care solutions and build coalitions to systematically increase their acceptance and uptake. Our strategic partnerships with governments and stakeholders help to operationalize self-care frameworks that complement health systems, scale self-care methods like self-inject contraception to improve people’s health autonomy, and support self-care as an avenue to help achieve Universal Health Coverage.  

Strengthening and sustaining the health workforce

Through public-private partnerships and government collaboration, we catalyze scale in health workforce delivery of care. PSI strengthen the health workforce through the development of protocols, training design and delivery, quality-of-care and supportive supervision approaches, and digital tools that enhance providers’ skills, equipping them to deliver client-centered care across diverse healthcare settings. We strengthen provider capacity to deliver healthcare for women and adolescent girls, addressing menstruation, cervical cancer, reproductive and post-partum health, and linkages to child healthcare.

Harnessing technology and innovation

This is an era of incredible innovation – with new contraceptive technologies, women’s health diagnostics, telehealth, and e-commerce platforms in the pipeline. We are taking these innovations from idea to market by leveraging our partnerships with governments, donors, commercial partners, and research and development organizations. Catalyzing change is a challenge, but when we embrace digital technology and health innovation to strengthen every level of the health system, we can connect people with the quality care they want and need.

Elevating voice and choice for individuals and communities

We partner with individuals, communities, civil society and public and private sector actors to forge a path towards locally owned and sustainable health solutions. Client and provider insights make our services more respectful, responsive and stigma-free and our technical experts use human-centered design principles to build new approaches to healthcare alongside consumers from around the world. For example, our flagship youth program is designed, implemented, and scaled by adolescent girls, for adolescent girls, to plan their futures and achieve their goals.

BUILDING STRONGER REPRODUCTIVE AND MATERNAL HEALTH SYSTEMS
relies on strategic partnerships

At PSI, we embrace change to implement and reform market interventions, addressing deeply rooted barriers with technical expertise and tactical experience to increase access to critical health products and services. However, for markets to evolve into a robust and person-centered health product and service delivery response, we seek multi-sectoral collaboration with governments, drug agencies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, healthcare providers, and communities. 