Description
Position Title: Senior Health and Policy Advisor, Infectious Diseases
Reports to: Chief Medical Officer
Location: Remotely within the U.S. or at a PIH care delivery site; 25% domestic and international travel
Position Type: Regular, Full-Time, Exempt, 40 hours/week
Position Overview:
The Senior Health and Policy Advisor, Infectious Diseases (SHPA ID) provides technical advice and clinical implementation support to Partners In Health (PIH) fcare delivery sites and partner institutions in the areas of endemic and epidemic infectious diseases such as: tuberculosis (TB), HIV, COVID-19 and nosocomial outbreaks in facilities. The SHPA ID works with an interdisciplinary and international team to ensure that health systems are equipped with the best tools and treatments to address the burden of infectious disease and that comprehensive approaches for prevention, treatment and case detection are in place. This will be done in collaboration with site-based clinical teams and cross site clinical and academic strategy and systems and operations teams and with international authorities.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Leadership, implementation support and guidance: (50%)
- Support in-country clinical and program teams to facilitate the development and execution of strategic work plans around prevention, case detection and treatment of infectious diseases, with priority attention on TB, a strategic priority focal area for PIH.
- Advise PIH clinical leadership and executive and clinical leadership of in-country teams around outbreak surveillance, outbreak response, and long-term pandemic preparedness.
- Work in direct partnership with PIH clinical leadership and the PIH TB program, policy and advocacy teams as part of the Theory of Change Branch and participate in major decisions and initiatives around TB.
- Provide guidance on key areas and opportunities for innovation in TB and broader infectious diseases at our sites.
- Supervise, advise, and mentor U.S. Coordination Site teams working on TB, lab systems and outbreak response and pandemic preparedness.
2. Expert technical analysis (20%):
- Lead technical analyses of health status indicators and demographic data; identify high risk groups within catchment populations; support sites in identifying gaps in responding to infectious diseases through epidemic surveillance.
- Develop reports or briefs on relevant information; make recommendations for action.
- Advise and support implementation of the development of short- and long-term plans to deliver high quality clinical services that incorporate up to date technology and science related to infectious disease prevention and outbreak response.
- Advise on development of research protocols about infectious disease outbreaks and assist in obtaining institutional review board approvals, as needed. .
- Analyze and interpret health and program data; assisting sites in understanding state of health and services in nosocomial outbreaks at health centers and hospitals.
- Provide input and technical guidance on project proposals, requests for funding, interim and final project reports, annual assessments of program impact, scientific and policy papers, and other documents.
3. Partnerships, training and professional d