OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME
The WHO Country Office for India collaborates with the Government of India and relevant stakeholders within the framework of the collaborative Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) to actively support the development. Implementation and evaluation of interventions aimed at reducing the burden of Communicable Diseases and comorbidities through strengthening public private partnership polices and health systems.
UNDERLYING VALUES AND CORE FUNCTIONS OF WHO
WHO's mandate revolves around six (6) leadership priorities specifying (i) advancing universal health coverage; (ii) health-related sustainable development goals; (iii) addressing the challenge of non-communicable diseases and mental health, violence and injuries and disabilities; (iv) implementing the provisions of the International Health Regulations (2005); (v) increasing access to quality, safe, efficacious and affordable medical products; and (vi) addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants of health. The South-East Asia Region (SEAR) of WHO is made up of 11 countries, with over 1.9 billion people, with India's population of 1.4 billion. All the Member States of WHO/SEAR (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste) share the common value of the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental human right. All of WHO actions are based on this and rooted in the underlying values of equity, solidarity and participation. The mission of WHO is to improve quality of life of the 1.4 billion people in India by supporting the government in eliminating
vaccine preventable and other communicable diseases, reducing maternal and neonatal mortalities, promoting healthy lifestyles, addressing determinants of health, preparing and responding to health emergencies and strengthening health systems for universal health coverage. The WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work (2019-2025) is structured
around three interconnected strategic priorities to ensure healthy lives and well-being for all at all ages; achieving universal health coverage, addressing health emergencies and promoting healthier populations.
MISSION OF THE WHO COUNTRY OFFICE FOR INDIA
In the context of the General Programme of Work and within the framework of the WHO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS), the mission of the WHO Country Office is to support India in: (i) developing and sustaining its own health policies, health systems and public health programmes; (ii) working to prevent and overcome threats to health; (iii)anticipating future challenges; and (iv) advocating for public health. The CCS identifies containment of AMR as a priority focus area and strengthening of labs and AMR surveillance is a priority under the National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance. AMR is a flagship programme for the South-East Asia Region of WHO.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
Under the overall guidance of the Team Leader, Communicable Diseases, and the direct supervision of the National Professional Officer, Labs, the incumbent will be responsible to carry out the following activities:
1. Provide technical assistance for strengthening surveillance via sound, accurate and consistent surveillance data generation and utilization, by establishing efficient and pragmatic operational methodology for leveraging IoT, infodemiology, Infovelliance and akin digital innovations in the country context.
2. Contribute to establishing methodologies for utilizing digital technologies to reduce short comings of traditional surveillance approaches like time lag in data generation and recall bias.
3.Assist national capacity building for uptake of digital public health surveillance system.
4.Support defining data specifications, requirement gathering in the local context and identifications of primary and secondary use cases for potential digital solutions while aligning with WHO SMART guidelines.
5.Facilitatestakeholder consultations for uptake of digital technologies while aligning developers, government institutions and end users.
6.Contribute to development and use of artificial intelligence towards data utilization to guide informed and evidence-based public policy development.
7.Support establishing evaluation frameworks for digital solutions with the objective of strengthening surveillance and improving accuracy of incidence estimation and epidemiological prediction(s).
8. Support capacity building in health informatics via stakeholder consultations, custom trainings, guidelines and alike.
9.Contribute to planning, implementation and monitoring of national as well as federated surveillance activities.
10. Support the country for the development of health intelligence and integrated health information system in relation to tuberculosis and other communicable diseases.
11.Collaborate with other technical organizations for supporting the country on subnational burden estimates through modern statistical methods including modelling.
12.Performany other duties as assigned by the supervisors.
Requisition number: 2301670
Position title: NPO (Information Support and Surveillance)
Grade: NO-A
Contract duration: More than 6 months
Posting Date: Feb 28, 2023, 10:04:00 AM
Closing Date: Mar 21, 2023, 4:29:00 AM
Contract type: Temporary appointment
Duty Station: India-New Delhi
Link to apply:
- WHO Careers Website: Careers at WHO
- Vacancies (staff member access): https://careers.who.int/careersection/in/jobsearch.ftl
- Vacancies (external candidate access): https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl