SINCE 1992

Quality Healthcare for Everyone, Everywhere

AIHA strengthens health systems and workforce capacity in low- and middle-income countries through locally led partnerships that produce measurable, sustainable results.

221+
partnerships & projects worldwide
43
countries across four continents
179K+
health & allied workers trained
305+
U.S. institutions engaged

How AIHA Delivers Sustainable Impact

AIHA understands the challenges facing health systems today. We know that strong institutions and well-trained health workers are the most sustainable investment in global health.

As global health evolves toward locally-driven, locally-owned, and locally-sustainable models, AIHA serves as a trusted bridge between global expertise and national ownership.

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Bridging Knowledge

For more than 30 years, AIHA has served as a bridge linking health professionals, institutions, policymakers, and other stakeholders to effectively transfer knowledge, skills, and technologies.

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Peer-to-Peer Learning

Since our inception, AIHA has recognized that health and allied professionals learn more effectively from their peers. They then share their new skills with others, thus multiplying impact.

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Cost-Effective Expertise

Working alongside local stakeholders and within local context, AIHA's interventions are highly cost-effective. We know what expertise is needed and mobilize it efficiently.

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Institutional Capacity

AIHA focuses on building institutional capacity because we know that it is critical to sustainability. For training and technology to matter, it must be integrated into local systems.

How AIHA Delivers Sustainable Impact

AIHA understands the challenges facing health systems today. We know that strong institutions and well-trained health workers are the most sustainable investment in global health.

As global health evolves toward locally-driven, locally-owned, and locally-sustainable models, AIHA serves as a trusted bridge between global expertise and national ownership.

Bridging Knowledge

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Peer-to-Peer Leanring

Since our inception, AIHA has recognized that health and allied professionals learn more effectively from their peers. They then share their new skills with others, thus multiplying impact.

Cost-Effective Expertise

Working alongside local stakeholders and within local context, AIHA’s interventions are highly cost-effective. We know what expertise is needed and mobilize it efficiently.

Institutional Capacity

AIHA focuses on building institutional capacity because we know that it is critical to sustainability. For training and technology to matter, it must be integrated into local systems.

Our Strategy

AIHA’s partnerships and programs contribute to sustainable change by providing management and programmatic support to help low- and middle-income countries build institutional and human resource capacity to create a strong foundation for delivering high-quality, inclusive health services.

Local Institutions

Working closely with local hospitals, universities, and ministries so countries can lead their own health system improvements.

Global Expertise

Connecting international health professionals and institutions to exchange knowledge and best practices.

Sustainable Health Systems

Building durable systems that continue improving healthcare long after projects end.

What We Do & How We Do It

The WHO health system framework focuses on six critical and interconnected components necessary to improve health outcomes. AIHA’s work focuses on three of these components.

Service Delivery

Focus on access to safe, quality personal and non-personal health services that improve health outcomes.

Health Workforce

Focus on trained, motivated, and supported health and allied staff delivering quality care in communities.

Leadership & Governance

Focus on policy frameworks, accountability, and regulation that ensure effective health system management.

 

News & Updates

Working for Access to Quality Healthcare for Everyone, Everywhere

“At a moment when global health is shifting and many systems are under strain, I am convinced that AIHA’s approach is more important than ever. Strong, resilient health systems — and the promise of health for all — depend on local ownership, durable partnerships, and long-term capacity building​,” says AIHA’s Executive Director Dr. Inna Jurkevich.

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AIHA, DBCSH Open New Clinical Learning Centers

AIHA and Debre Berhan Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (DBCSH) celebrated the official opening of the hospital’s newly renovated CPD Center and Nursing Skills Lab on September 25, 2025.

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Voices from the Field

Hear from the people who experience the impact of our work firsthand.

This experience offered a clear perspective on improvements we can implement at Philippine General Hospital for infection control and pandemic preparedness that will benefit not just our institution, but potentially strengthen the nation’s overall healthcare readiness.

Dr. Joanne Carmela Sandejas

Philippine General Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Treatment Hub
This experience has truly changed how I view healthcare, especially in resource-limited settings. I plan to use what I’ve learned to advocate for stronger emergency preparedness programs, develop protocols for managing special pathogens, and organize training sessions for healthcare workers in my community.

Dr. Orlando Ocampo

Head of Philippine General Hospital’s COVID Response Task Force, Coordinator for Emergency and Ambulatory Services, and Head of the Emergency Room Management Action Team
The nature of the twinning model… working so closely with our exact counterparts over several years and developing these long-term professional and personal relationships is something that is just not possible with any other form of technical assistance.

Dr. Joseph Masci

former Director, Global Health Institute, NYC Health + Hospitals / Elmhurst Hopsital Center, New York
The beauty of this sort of institution-to-institution partnership is that it effectively leverages the knowledge, expertise, and voluntarism of the US heath sector to strengthen both the human resources and organizational capacity of their counterparts.

The Honorable Pamela E. Bridgewater

former US Ambassador to Jamaica
Global health has seen tremendous progress around the world and building health systems capacity is paramount to sustain those gains and support countries’ aspiration for universal health coverage. AIHA’s important and timely mission aligns precisely with existing development needs.

Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, former Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, USAID (2011-2016)
When I was CEO and Vice Provost of the St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, I experienced first-hand the value of an AIHA-led twinning partnership that strengthened our pre- and in-service training capacity in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. As Minister of Health, I continue to see the invaluable contribution AIHA has made over the past decade to improve the capacity of our country’s institutions, resulting in better health outcomes.

Dr. Lia Tedesse Gebremedhin

Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
I have benefitted greatly not only from the training, but also the one-on-one mentoring provided at AIHA-supported Nursing Leadership Development workshops conducted by US experts through the Tanzania Nursing Initiative.

Stephen Kibusi

Head of Nursing Management, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania