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Short-Term Professional Positions at WHO:

Programme of Work on Health Systems Performance and Poverty Reduction

As part of its work to support countries in improving the performance of
their health systems, WHO is:

? developing a programme of work on health and poverty reduction. The main
objective of this work is analysis, formulation, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation of both health policies and poverty reduction strategies.
? developing a programme of work on the function of stewardship. It will
cover a wide spectrum of activities: more detailed characterization of the
concept of stewardship, the development of practical methods to assess
stewardship, and work to link analyses of stewardship to actions to
strengthen it.
? working with Member States to generate, synthetize, present and
disseminate a substantial amount of new information on different aspects of
national and sub-national health systems performance, including health
outcomes of the poor. This information consists of quantitative and
qualitative data on health system inputs, functions and goals in individual
countries.
? developing a programme of work to increase WHO capacity for health policy
and systems support to countries, in order to strengthen the design and
implementation of pro-poor health policies.
? Several positions are likely to be available requiring a range of
different skills and different levels of experience. The Department of
Health Financing and Stewardship (HFS) is more specifically looking for
professionals with a background in political and/or development economics
sciences, public health or sociology, with experience in survey design,
questionnaire development and techniques for cross-population research, to
contribute to instrument analysis and development.

A background in political and/or development economics sciences, public
health or sociology, who possess excellent analytical and writing skills, to
contribute to the development of policy briefs and country reports on health
systems and poverty reduction.  A first degree in one of the social
sciences, with strong quantitative skills in multi-variate statistics and
experience with analysing large data sets, as well as using psychometric and
factor analysis, to contribute to the analysis of information on health
systems performance. Ability to work in STATA would be an advantage. A
background in health policy and systems analysis, especially in less
developed countries; experience in organizing cross-country capacity
building programmes for a wide range of technical experts and
decision-makers, and excellent organizational and managerial skills.
Preference will be given to applicants who have excellent knowledge of
English or French (with a working knowledge of the other), and good
interpersonal skills with a proven ability to work in a team. Initial
appointments will be for 11 months or shorter, depending on availability and
experience. The successful applicants will work under the guidance of a team
coordinator.

Please send curriculum vitae to:
Dr Abdelhay Mechbal, mechbala at who.int
Director of Health Financing and Stewardship (HFS),
World Health Organization
1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland