Jobs at World Health Organization

Purpose of consultancy

To conduct Public Health Situation Analysis (PHSA) and advance Public Health Information Services (PHIS) to support institutional decisions on a wide scope of health issues in acute and in particular protracted emergencies, orient technical cooperation to countries, and document the emergency situation that has a Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) in countries and regions. 

To develop and provide methodological and technological instruments to support the PHSA and PHIS in Fragile, Conflict-affected, and Vulnerable Settings (FCV) team, in particular to its IMSTs. 

Background  

The mission of WHO's Health Emergencies Programme (WHE Programme) is to build the capacity of Member States to manage health emergency risks and, when national capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international health response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations. The Health Emergency Interventions Department (HEI) of the Emergency Response Division of WHE is using PHSA as means of an evidence-informed basis for formulating future strategic directions for and as the principal orientation in acute and protracted emergency health responses.

Deliverables

• Conduct a review of preparatory materials for a selection of past grading calls to extract key crisis information. Expected: monthly activity reports.
• Review the preparatory material for joint operational reviews to create case studies and prepare a methodology for annual reviews to monitor the evolution of crises with an HRP. Expected: monthly activity reports.
• Integrate PHIS in general, and PHSA specifically, for health information in IMSTs through the creation and implementation of a blueprint for all prospectively graded crises, and updates for any retrospectively graded crises as required (according to a pre-defined schedule). Expected: monthly activity reports.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• Advanced university degree (Master's level or above) in Health, Public Health, or Health Programme Evaluation from an accredited/recognized university.

Desirable:

• Ph.D. in Health, Public Health, or Health Programme Evaluation from an accredited/recognized university.

Experience

Essential:

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in public health in emergencies, including information management, monitoring and needs assessment on work in emergencies. 
• Experience working with health cluster partners and recognized humanitarian organizations, including at the country and/or regional level, in acute and/or protracted emergencies.

Desirable:

• Experience working in WHO, the UN, and/or international organizations.
• Strong track record as Health Cluster IMO. 

Skills/Knowledge:

Essential:

• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Sound analytical and academic skills. 
• Expertise in public health information management and analysis.

Desirable:

• Experience implementing PHSA and PHIS in humanitarian crises.

Languages required:

Essential:  

• Expert knowledge of English.
• Intermediate knowledge of French.

Closing Date : Sep 30, 2022

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Purpose of consultancy

The consultant will contribute to the backend development of the HeRAMS platform  

Background  

The HeRAMS Initiative aims at providing decision-makers and health-sector actors at large with critical and up-to-date information on the availability of essential health resources and services. The HeRAMS platform is an essential component of the initiative and used by approximately 20 countries. To support the ongoing scale-up of the HeRAMS initiative, the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme seeks to appoint a consultant to contribute to the backend of the platform.

Deliverables

• Deliverable 1:  Contribute to the frontend development of the HeRAMS platform by: 
  • Analysis of requirements based on the needs collected by business owners. 
  • UIX designing and coding in line with software quality standards and adequately addressing identified needs. 
  • Providing regular progress updates to business owners on the design, development, and implementation of features. 

Expected by: on monthly basis, starting October 2022.

• Deliverable 2: Develop and implement automated testing scripts, ensuring all new features are fully tested using automated tests. 

Expected by:  on monthly basis, starting October 2022.

• Deliverable 3: Contribute to the timely resolution of back-end bugs reported by end-users. 

Expected by: on monthly basis, starting October 2022.

• Deliverable 4: Advise and contribute to the design of a longer-term development roadmap. 

Expected by: on trimestral basis, starting December 2022.

• Deliverable 5: Develop adequate documentation of the work as required, including on: 
  • Requirements
  • Developments 
  • Architecture.

Expected by: on monthly basis, starting October 2022.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• First university degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, or any other relevant field.

Desirable:

• Advanced degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, or any other relevant field.

Experience

Essential:

• Band A: Up to five years of relevant experience in the design, development and maintenance of advanced information systems using open-source technologies.
• Band B: Five to ten years of professional experience in the design, development and maintenance of advanced information systems using open-source technologies.

Desirable:

• Experience working on Information Systems to support public health response in emergencies.
• Experience with k8s hosting environments.

Skills/Knowledge:

Essential:

• Demonstrated skills and knowledge in database design, development, and management 
• Demonstrated skills in developing information systems. 
• Sound knowledge of MySQL, PHP 8.1, Yii2 or a similar MVC framework, static analysis, automated testing (Codeception, php unit).
• Excellent interpersonal skills and willingness to be part of and coordinate with a diverse team. 
• Results-oriented and ability to work in a team.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of data collection processes and tools, data management, analysis and reporting.

Closing Date : Oct 5, 2022

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Purpose of consultancy

To provide technical expertise to the cancer programme e.g., to report on work streams, to organize events, briefings and to prepare proposals; to enhance communication with partners and to coordinate the analysis, consolidation and dissemination of information on WHO cancer team activities.

Background  

The Department of Non-communicable Diseases (NCD) is responsible for global leadership, coordination, guidance and technical support to reduce premature mortality and morbidity from NCDs, burden of sensory impairments and oral health through prevention and integrated service delivery, treatment, surveillance, rehabilitation, monitoring and research. The department assist and support regions and countries in their efforts to provide a country-centered, concerted and coordinated action to strengthen health systems to respond to NCDs, oral diseases and sensory impairment. The objective of the cancer and NCD programme is to support implementation of WHO mandates related to cancer management, including strengthening of WHO global cancer initiatives through an integrated approach, political engagement and promoting multi-sectoral participation and synergies and by accelerating progress through innovation and research.

Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Contribute to coordination and implementation of activities for WHO cancer team including by preparing communication material for WHO offices and partners. 

• Deliverable 1.1: Prepare project and/or grant management reports on annual basis or as specified.
• Deliverable 1.2: Meet regularly with members of WHO cancer team to review and update draft work plans.
• Deliverable 1.3: Participate in technical meetings and discussions, including involvement in meetings with other NCD teams and departments. 
• Deliverable 1.4: Prepare project proposal documents for work streams in line with WHO 13th Global Programme of Work and planned Technical Products.

Deliverable 2: Contribute to technical products and communication with strategic partners.

• Deliverable 2.1: Participate in technical meetings and discussions regarding the WHO Technical Product, including the design and finalization of products in cooperation with WHO colleagues.
• Deliverable 2.2: Review WHO technical products in the areas of cancer. 
• Deliverable 2.3: Coordinate technical feedback from expert rosters involved in WHO cancer and other NCD initiative.
• Deliverable 2.4: Disseminate selected WHO technical products in cancer through social media, webinars, trainings, and other creative means. 
• Deliverable 2.5: Contribute to writing and/or editing relevant sections in eligibility criteria relevant to cancer and other NCDs. 
• Deliverable 2.6: Participate in technical meetings and discussions.

Deliverable 3: Prepare and organize meetings and report outputs. 

• Deliverable 3.1: Organize relevant meetings including drafting of concept note, agenda and engagement of participants.
• Deliverable 3.2: Dialogue with experts/meeting participants in meeting preparation and outputs. 
• Deliverable 3.3: Participate in technical meetings and discussions. 

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• Band level A: First university degree in medicine and/or public health.
• Band level B: Advanced university degree in medicine and/or public health.

Desirable:

Degree or credentials in public health or public policy, degree or credential in cancer-related fields, training in project management.

Experience

Essential:

• Band level A: From 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in cancer and public health. 
• Band level B: Over 5 years of relevant experience in cancer and public health.

Desirable:

• Professional experience in public health or related sector.
• Work experience in developing countries. 
• Relevant work experience with WHO and/or UN agencies, health cluster partners, or relevant non-governmental organizations.

Skills/Knowledge:

• Demonstrated expertise of working in a high-level environment at an international level.
• Expertise in supporting the organization of consultations and meetings.
• Ability to conduct research, collect information and synthesize information.
• Excellent writing skills in English, including for technical and general audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Familiarity with the WHO environment and practices.

Closing Date: Oct 4, 2022

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Purpose of consultancy

To establish a roster of consultants to provide technical expertise to the R&D Blueprint during the Monkeypox outbreak.

Background  

Since early May 2022, cases of monkeypox have been reported from countries where the disease is not endemic, and continue to be reported in several endemic countries. This is the first time that many monkeypox cases and clusters have been reported concurrently in non-endemic and endemic countries in widely disparate geographical areas.

In response, a Monkeypox Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) has been developed. It sets out the strategic objectives to support preparedness, prevention, readiness and response for monkeypox, and describes the key actions across five areas by which those objectives will be achieved: emergency coordination; collective intelligence; engaging and protecting communities; clinical care and infection prevention and control; and countermeasures and research.

The R&D Blueprint is responsible for generating the science on diseases that have epidemic and pandemic potential, and for which there are insufficient medical countermeasures. As part of the SPRP for Monkeypox, the R&D Blueprint is responsible for:

• Developing Target Product Profiles for vaccines to guide developers on their preferred and minimally acceptable characteristics.
• Landscaping all vaccines candidates in pre-clinical and clinical development and tracking their progress through the development pipeline.
• Mapping all registered clinical trials for vaccine and undertaking systematic reviews of trial results.
• Establishing an independent process to prioritize the most promising and high impact candidate vaccines for further research and clinical evaluation.
• Developing standardized core clinical trial protocols and standard operating procedures according to good clinical practice.
• Supporting large, international, randomized controlled clinical trials designed to rapidly evaluate of the benefits and risks of prioritized candidate vaccines.

Deliverables

• Deliverable 1:  Develop Target Product Profiles (TPP) for Monkeypox Vaccines. The TPP documents would aim to inform product developers, regulatory agencies, procurement agencies and funders on R&D and public health priorities. They would describe the preferred and the minimally acceptable profiles for Monkeypox vaccines and provide information for funders and developers on the performance and operational characteristics expected of products if they are to meet WHO’s needs.
• Deliverable 2: Conduct a landscape analysis of Monkeypox Vaccine candidates. The landscape analyses would compile detailed information of every known vaccine candidate pre-clinical and clinical development by closely monitoring their progress through the development pipeline. The landscape would include additional information and published reports on safety, immunogenicity and efficacy. 
• Deliverable 3: Vaccine Prioritization. Based on the landscaping of candidate vaccines, an independent process is needed to help WHO prioritize research efforts on the more promising candidates that may have the highest impact. Independent group of experts would need to be constituted and managed to advise WHO on the prioritization of candidates. 
• Deliverable 4: Develop Core Protocols for Monkeypox Vaccine Clinical Trials. WHO recommends researchers around the world to systemically evaluate candidate vaccines in randomized control trials as the gold standard. For this WHO develops standardized and simplified core clinical trial protocols that can be implemented with similar methodology, primary and secondary outcomes that are comparable. 
• Deliverable 5: Provide technical expertise to randomized controlled clinical trials in various countries. WHO will not be sponsoring any Monkeypox clinical trials for vaccines but will support existing trials. Areas of support will include clinical trial data management, surveillance, pharmacovigilance and/or statistical and modelling analyses, trial operationalization in countries and clinical sites (incl. research site planning/preparations, local research team constitution and support, support for regulatory and ethics approvals of core protocol), Global Clinical Practice (GCP) training, Laboratory support, and Supply, logistics and cold chain support.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• An advanced university degree in medicine, public health, or epidemiology in infectious diseases relevant to the tasks of the consultancy.

Desirable:

• A PhD in one of the above-mentioned fields.

Experience

Essential:

• Band level B:  5 to 10 years relevant experience in research and development of key high impact epidemic diseases, including experience providing senior level advice and guidance to decision makers, as well as experience in the area of developing and establishing policies and strategies.
• Band level C:  Over 10 years relevant experience in research and development of key high impact epidemic diseases, including experience providing senior level advice and guidance to decision makers, as well as experience in the area of developing and establishing policies and strategies
• Demonstrated experience at the international level.

Skills/Knowledge:

• Globally-respected level of technical expertise and knowledge of therapeutics for epidemic and pandemic prone diseases.
• Proven understanding of the management of acute and complex public health responses, including infectious disease outbreaks in humanitarian emergencies.
• Strong skills in the area of developing and establishing polices and strategies.
• Ability to engage, build consensus and communicate effectively and diplomatically. Commitment to collaborate effectively with key partners.

Closing Date: Sep 28, 2022