Paul Eder, a senior director with Qiagen in Gaithersburg, has spent the past five years working on an HPV test for women who live in the developing world. HPV, the human papilloma virus, is the primary cause of cervical cancer. The CareHPV project, which received funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is conducted in partnership with the global nonprofit health care organization PATH, will run pilot programs in Nicaragua, India and Uganda in 2009.

How do you find people capable of administering these tests in rural, developing parts of the world?