Overview
The role supports regional frameworks and integrated surveillance, including wastewater and environmental surveillance, under the Multi Disease Elimination agenda. It also involves partnerships, communication, visibility, and evidence generation for diseases not covered under dedicated programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Support development of a regional WES strategy and policy brief.
- Assist coordination with partners to harmonize approaches.
- Support organization of regional virtual/in person inception workshops.
- Provide high level support to the development and rollout of the regional WES strategy.
- Contribute to the finalization and implementation of the Regional Communicable Disease Surveillance Framework.
- Support country specific surveillance action plan components.
- Assist exploratory work on integrated/cross programme surveillance.
- Support collaboration with Health Information Systems/digital health teams.
- Conduct donor landscape scans and maintain profiles of funding partners.
- Draft and review concept notes, donor briefs, proposal inputs, and partner engagement materials.
- Contribute to resource mobilization materials and presentations.
- Prepare communication/visibility materials.
- Develop social media ready outputs and support updates to webpages.
- Produce evidence products for selected emerging or currently non reported diseases.
- Conduct desk reviews; analyse available surveillance and laboratory data.
- Consult with laboratories, One Health teams, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, HIS, and Country Office colleagues.
- Propose feasible options for strengthened indicator based surveillance, basic case detection models, and simple burden estimation approaches.
- Contribute to the drafting of a pilot protocol for multiplex diagnostic tests.
- Support analytical work related to NCD surveillance systems.
- Assist in developing/adapting tools and mapping and summarizing risk factor surveillance.
- Support designing, compilation and synthesis of information on cancer registries and other NCD registries.
- Contribute to reviews of patient level NCD data systems.
- Support analysis and documentation of SEAHEARTS implementation.
- Assist in early scoping of mental health surveillance.
- Contribute to identifying opportunities for harmonizing NCDs and mental health indicators.
- Assist burden estimation exercises; support planning/review of longitudinal cohort studies and seroprevalence surveys.
Required Experience
- At least seven years of professional experience in public health surveillance, epidemiology, communicable disease control, or health information systems, preferably within a national public health institution, ministry of health, academic, or research setting.
- Demonstrated experience working with routine health data, surveillance indicators and basic epidemiologic analysis.
- Experience contributing to communicable disease surveillance activities such as indicator monitoring, data reviews, dashboards, CRVS, registries, or routine reporting systems.
- Exposure to and familiarity with: NCD or mental health data within population health monitoring or surveillance contexts.
- Exposure to and familiarity with: laboratory or environmental surveillance data, AMR, wastewater surveillance, One Health surveillance, or coordination with laboratory partners.
- Experience working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, including government counterparts, technical partners, communities, or multisectoral teams.
- Experience preparing technical outputs such as: Technical briefs, reports, presentations, communication materials, resource mobilization inputs.
- Experience in preparing scientific literature, including proven track record of publication of manuscripts in high-impact peer-reviewed journals (ideally as first, second or last author).
- CANDITATES WITH PROVEN WORK EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH-EAST ASIAN REGION MEMBER STATES (SEAR MS) WILL BE GIVEN PREFERENCE.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Medicine, or Infectious Diseases with documented academic or applied focus on disease surveillance, health data analysis, or health systems monitoring.
- PhD in these domains will be preferred.
- Desirable: Training certification in public health surveillance methods, programme monitoring, or health information systems.
