1. Purpose of the Consultancy

The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical advice to the digital health and related innovation activities in the EMR, with special emphasis on implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health Roadmap, utilization of mobile technologies for health promotion and education, as well as supporting digital technology applications in emergencies, including the current COVID-19 pandemic, by providing updated information and knowledge for the digital health initiatives at the regional and country level; and facilitating the dialogue of stakeholders and partners to learn about the national context for adoption of appropriate technologies to address health / public health priorities.

  1. Background

At WHO/HQ, the Digital Health & Innovation (DHI) Department sits within the Science Division. The overall mission of the Science Division is to harness the power of science and innovation in a systematic way, by ensuring the excellence, relevance, and efficiency of WHO's core technical functions, including norms, standards and research. Within the Division, the specific purpose of the DHI Department is to harness the power of digital health and technologies to contribute to the attainment of the highest standard of health of all people. The Global Strategy on Digital Health (GSDH) has been approved by the Member States at the World Health Assembly in November 2020. It promotes 4 strategic objectives that relate to implementing and sustaining the appropriate use of digital health to strengthen health systems.

At WHO/EMRO, the Digital Health and Innovation (DHI) area of work sits within the Research and Innovation (RAI) cluster, Division of Science, Information & Dissemination (SID). DHI aims at steering digital health to contribute to achieving the GPW13 triple billion goals and health-related SDGs, within the overall scope of SID work. DHI’s main objective is to enhance WHO leadership role in assessing and enabling digital health technologies, and support countries to make decisions about how to identify, prioritize, integrate, implement and regulate such technologies, based on national digital health strategies. The programme also fosters collaboration through networks and partnerships to help identify and address gaps through innovation and digital health applications and services.

  1. Planned timelines:

Start date: 15/02/2022 (subject to change) End date: 14/02/2023

  1. Work to be performed

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Deliverable

Expected delivery date

Output 1

Provide technical advice to Digital Health initiative in the EMR including implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health (GSDH) and regional priorities

Activity 1.1: Promote regional collaboration towards raising awareness and advancing knowledge transfer on digital health in the EMR

Expected outcomes:

a. Identify and document successful examples of national digital health plans from three countries of the region (one low income, one middle income and one high income country)

b. Draft a working document for promotion of regional and national digital health, including a specific vision, mission, objectives, action plan, expected outcomes and timeline (chronogram), and estimated budget based on the experience of work conducted at national level

Activity 1.2: Technically Support advancing and implementation of national digital health strategies / activities in EMR member states

Expected outcome:

a. Contribute to the national capacity building activities for developing and implementing national digital health strategies / and digital health programs (such as mHealth, remote health care provision, etc) in selected EMR member states

b. Recommend enhancement of integrated people-centred health care systems using digital health solutions

Output 2:

monitoring and evaluation of indicators to observe progress in implementation of digital health and innovation, including GSDH and mHealth projects in alignment with regional / national priorities

Activity 2.1:Develope an implementation agenda (timeline, metadata, data collection procedures and follow up actions) for a digital health M&E framework within EMR member states

Expected outcome:

a. Draft a M&E framework for monitoring of progress in digital health at national level, and provision of next steps advice to countries

b. Design, pilot and implement a reporting platform for M&E indicators included in the framework

  1. Specific requirements

Essential Qualifications:

University degree for lower end of range and master’s degree for mid and high end of range in digital health, information technology, information management, computer sciences, health systems, public health, development or a related field

Desirable qualifications:

Qualification in public health, health governance, health economics, or business administration.

Experience required:

From 5 to 10 years of relevant experience, including work with public / private digital health programs. International experience in digital health is mandatory.

Skills / Technical skills and knowledge:

  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excellent planning/organization skills
  • Proven skills in time management and team-work

Language requirements:

  • Ability to write and communicate in English (required), Arabic (preferable)
  • Knowledge of French would be an advantage
  1. Place of assignment:

Cairo, Egypt

  1. Medical clearance

The selected Consultant will be expected to provide a medical certificate of fitness for work.

  1. Travel

The Consultant may be expected to travel, including for taking up assignment, itinerary and estimated schedule will be agreed as required.

All travel arrangements will be made by WHO – WHO will not be responsible for tickets purchased by the Consultant without the express, prior authorization of WHO. While on mission under the terms of this consultancy, the Consultant will receive subsistence allowance in line with the instructions applicable locally, or up to the maximum of the UN DSA.

The Consultant may apply for a UN Certificate prior to travelling.

Visas requirements: it is the Consultant’s responsibility to fulfil visa requirements and ask for visa support letter(s) if needed.

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