The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.
CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.
At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skill sets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org.
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Overview of the Program
Malaria is one of the world's most important causes of illness, death, and lost economic productivity. Over the past decade, dramatic increases in donor funding have facilitated scale-up of effective interventions to prevent, diagnosis, and treat malaria. This investment has successfully reduced the burden of malaria in many settings, and some countries have begun planning to eliminate it altogether. CHAIโs global malaria program provides direct management and technical support to countries around the globe to strengthen their malaria programs and reduce the burden of this preventable, treatable disease.
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of over 20 infectious diseases that affect more than a billion people worldwide. These diseases typically affect the worldโs poorest, including those living in remote, rural areas, urban slums, or conflict zones. Children are the most vulnerable. NTDs often overlap geographically with malaria, and most are similarly transmitted by vectors including mosquitoes, flies, or worms โ meaning that they can be prevented through similar measures as those used to fight malaria. Today, the largest efforts against NTDs involve the delivery of preventive chemotherapy through mass drug administration.
Countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have committed to eliminating malaria. To achieve this, countries need to rapidly detect and effectively treat infections, to identify and aggressively target areas where malaria transmission persists, and to coordinate efforts closely to ensure movements of people and parasites do not jeopardize success. CHAI is supporting malaria programs in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, India and Papua New Guinea to strengthen surveillance systems, devise targeted and evidence-based plans, successfully implement these plans, scale-up case management and vector control interventions in high-risk and hard-to-reach populations, and coordinate activities regionally.
Overview of Role
CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual with public health experience, case management experience, disease surveillance and analytical skills to scale-up disease surveillance systems; monitor and support the ongoing efforts to reduce disease burden and work towards elimination; and support analyses and translate results for decision-makers in the region with a particular focus on work in PNG where the CHAI program started in 2024. They will collaborate primarily with the Country Malaria Teams and the Regional Team for Asia, reporting to CHAIโs commodity access lead and regional technical advisor for surveillance analytics based in Cambodia. Additionally, the individual will collaborate with CHAIโs Global and other Regional Teams as well as with government programs, academic partners and public health agencies. The successful candidate will possess strong communication and organizational skills, work independently and be innovative in applying their epidemiological expertise with a commitment to producing results. They must have a willingness to travel to relatively remote regions with limited infrastructure and medical care.
Responsibilities
Case management (70% (PNG (50%), GMS (50%))
Provide technical support, including but not limited to:
Developing and maintaining strong understanding of the malaria diagnosis and treatment landscape within the region; and serve as a trusted adviser to CHAI country teams and national malaria programs on issues related to case management;Identifying high priority opportunities to improve the quality and coverage of malaria diagnosis and treatment across public, private and community sectors through scoping exercises and review of routine data;Developing and supporting the implementation of monitoring & evaluation (M&E) plans for CHAI and government case management and tools to include collection, analysis, interpretation and use of appropriate indicators across GMS;Ensuring documentation and dissemination of topics related to malaria case management and/or supply chain management activities and results through technical reports, presentations, policy briefs, and publications; Generating, synthesizing and translating evidence (i.e., via surveys, literature reviews, routine data analyses) to inform government and partner policies and programmatic decision-making;In close collaboration with CHAIโs country and global teams, NMCPs and other stakeholders, provide operational and implementation support including but not limited to:
Supporting development and/or update of national guidelines related to diagnosis and treatment, quality assurance and control for medicines and diagnostics; Developing materials for health care workers, including SOPs and training materials, to improve adherence to national guidelines;Designing and implementing strategies and detailed plans to address gaps in availability and access to case management services;Expanding access to and effectiveness of community case management networks through targeted and context specific strategies; Designing strategies, plans and tools for the integration of case management and supply chain information into malaria surveillance systems;Provide support to grant management and regional coordination, including but not limited to:
Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders including governments, non-governmental organizations, and academic partners;Supporting grant management and donor reporting for the region, and working alongside CHAI country teams to develop programmatic updates;Facilitating regular coordination with country teams, NMCPs and key partners on country activities and priorities. Any other tasks as required.
Analytics and Surveillance (30% (PNG (25%), GMS (5%))
Plan and conduct analyses of malaria and NTD data, including retrospective epidemiological assessments, impact evaluations, optimizing intervention packages, and quantifying contribution of drivers of transmission such as climate and importation;Help cultivate a culture of data-use within disease programs by strengthening the quality, use and analysis of epidemiological, entomological, and programmatic data by the malaria program to inform country strategy planning and program implementation;Synthesize results, translate them to national and sub-national government partners to support evidence-based decision-making, and disseminate findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications internally and externally at international venues. Support and implement surveillance projects related to malaria and NTDs, covering epidemiology, interventions, supply chain (commodities), and entomology, as required;Support institutionalization of data reviews at all levels, including the development and use of data collection tools and dashboards (e.g. Tableau, DHIS2, etc);Capacity building and communication
Provide technical supervision, training and ad-hoc programmatic support to staff members involved in analytics and surveillance activities such as data quality, monitoring and evaluation of existing activities, outbreak detection and response, surveillance system evaluation.Represent CHAI at external technical meetings with local academic and technical partners;Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the country team, key stakeholders across government, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions, with support from the technical advisor;Any other tasks identified.Qualifications
Masterโs degree in public health, epidemiology or related field;2-4 years of work experience with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership, including in project management;Strong project management skills, including the ability to plan, execute, and monitor multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables; Knowledge of malaria, NTDs and/or other major global infectious disease problems;Experience conducting and managing in-country epidemiological surveys, including the analysis of surveillance and survey data; Experience in monitoring and evaluation of surveillance systems and/or public health programs;Familiarity with disease surveillance and strengthening information systems;High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and internet applications; Familiarity with data entry, data management, epidemiological analysis and statistical analysis using statistical software (R, Stata and/or other relevant software);Enthusiasm for applying research methods to solve global health problems, focusing on malaria and/or other major global infectious disease concerns; Experience working and communicating with government officials and other external partners; Ability to work independently, including in remote and unstructured settings, and to adapt to new environments and challenges; Ability to collaborate and operate as part of a multicultural team; Exceptional written and oral communication skills;Willingness to travel (approximately 30% of time); Fluent in English.Advantages
Experience working in fast-paced, output-oriented environments;Experience with qualitative research methods; Experience living or working in resource-limited settings, including in AsiaExperience working with a decentralized team;Experience in programming (e.g., JavaScript, Python) and/or working with surveillance platforms (e.g. DHIS2), data collection tools (e.g. ODK, SurveyCTO) and/or data visualization applications (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI)Fluency in Khmer or Lao language.#jobreference2 #region2