The Air Quality and Health Unit’s activities on ambient and household air pollution cover different areas including evidence synthesis, monitoring and reporting on exposure and burden of disease, capacity building, development of tools, and communication. In line with these activities and as part of WHO’s mandate under the “Road Map for an Enhanced Global Response to the Adverse Health Effects of Air Pollution” (A69/18), the Unit is developing a comprehensive training material to strengthen knowledge and professional capacity of health workers to deal with air pollution and health‐related issues.
The training material toolkit consists of general introductory training modules as well as specific modules for clinicians being complemented by a training of trainers manual. The aim of the manual is to enable trainees (health workers) to be equipped to act as trainers while engaging in different types of activities to raise awareness on air pollution and health issues targeting their colleagues and peers as well as the community. To complement the training toolkit, a set of interactive clinical case scenarios are being developed, that cover various air pollution-related diseases, higher‐risk groups (e.g. elders, pregnant women, children) taking into consideration both ambient and household air pollution exposure contexts in urban and rural settings as well as cultural, behavioural, socioeconomic and geographic factors with a special focus on low‐ and middle‐income countries.
WHO is seeking a health education specialist to work in cooperation with the WHO team and other experts to work on the development of clinical case scenarios on air pollution and health as part of the training material toolkit. The general objective of clinical case scenarios is to improve reasoning and decision‐making skills among health workers related to air pollution in their patient’s health and their ability to induce action at the individual and the community level. The clinical case scenarios shall be used for training purposes.
The selected candidate will be responsible for developing the clinical case scenarios, in collaboration with an expert group consisting of clinicians and epidemiologists established for that purpose. The candidate will also be assisting the WHO team in liaising with other health education experts to finalize the training material toolkit and in providing technical advice on the use of interactive sessions and other formal and non‐formal education activities.
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