Population Services International (PSI) is a global nonprofit organization focused on the encouragement of healthy behavior and affordability of health products. PSI was founded in 1970 to improve reproductive health using commercial marketing strategies and has expanded to work in over 50 countries in the areas of malaria, family planning, HIV, diarrhea, pneumonia and sanitation. PSI is headquartered in Washington, DC.
A hallmark of PSI is a commitment to the principle that health services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by robust communications and distribution efforts that help ensure wide acceptance and proper use.
PSI works in partnership with local governments, ministries of health and local organizations to create health solutions that are built to last.
HISTORY
PSI was founded in 1970 to improve reproductive health using commercial marketing strategies. For its first 15 years, PSI worked mostly in family planning (hence the name Population Services International). In 1985, it started promoting oral rehydration therapy. PSI’s first HIV prevention project - which promoted abstinence, fidelity and condoms - began in 1988. PSI added malaria and safe water to its portfolio in the 1990s and tuberculosis in 2004.
HEALTH IMPACT
PSI has an uncompromising focus on measurable health impact and measures its effect on disease and death much like a for-profit measures its profits. Just last year PSI saved the lives of 9,246 mothers, prevented 3,896,671 unintended pregnancies, stopped 234,367 new HIV infections, and avoided 379,286 deaths due to diseases like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia that most threaten young children.
PROGRAM LOCATION
World headquarters in Washington, D.C., programs in more than 50 countries, European office in Amsterdam.
PEOPLE
More than 8,900 staff work for PSI and its affiliates. PSI’s expatriate staff is about 1% of the overall workforce. Support services and advocacy are provided by staff in Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
PSI’S MISSION
PSI makes it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services.
PSI’S VALUES
Measurement: Evidence, research, metrics and evaluation inform our choices.
Pragmatism: We strive for excellence, but useful and timely are better than perfect.
Honesty: We act with integrity, share what we achieve, and admit when we fail.
Collaboration: Active partnering drives impact.
Trust: We have confidence in our people to make good decisions.
Commitment: We build local capacity and programs that last. Population Services International (PSI) is a global nonprofit organization focused on the encouragement of healthy behavior and affordability of health products. PSI was founded in 1970 to improve reproductive health using commercial marketing strategies and has expanded to work in over 50 countrie
... read mores in the areas of malaria, family planning, HIV, diarrhea, pneumonia and sanitation. PSI is headquartered in Washington, DC.
A hallmark of PSI is a commitment to the principle that health services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by robust communications and distribution efforts that help ensure wide acceptance and proper use.
PSI works in partnership with local governments, ministries of health and local organizations to create health solutions that are built to last.
HISTORY
PSI was founded in 1970 to improve reproductive health using commercial marketing strategies. For its first 15 years, PSI worked mostly in family planning (hence the name Population Services International). In 1985, it started promoting oral rehydration therapy. PSI’s first HIV prevention project - which promoted abstinence, fidelity and condoms - began in 1988. PSI added malaria and safe water to its portfolio in the 1990s and tuberculosis in 2004.
HEALTH IMPACT
PSI has an uncompromising focus on measurable health impact and measures its effect on disease and death much like a for-profit measures its profits. Just last year PSI saved the lives of 9,246 mothers, prevented 3,896,671 unintended pregnancies, stopped 234,367 new HIV infections, and avoided 379,286 deaths due to diseases like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia that most threaten young children.
PROGRAM LOCATION
World headquarters in Washington, D.C., programs in more than 50 countries, European office in Amsterdam.
PEOPLE
More than 8,900 staff work for PSI and its affiliates. PSI’s expatriate staff is about 1% of the overall workforce. Support services and advocacy are provided by staff in Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
PSI’S MISSION
PSI makes it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services.
PSI’S VALUES
Measurement: Evidence, research, metrics and evaluation inform our choices.
Pragmatism: We strive for excellence, but useful and timely are better than perfect.
Honesty: We act with integrity, share what we achieve, and admit when we fail.
Collaboration: Active partnering drives impact.
Trust: We have confidence in our people to make good decisions.
Commitment: We build local capacity and programs that last. 
