Public Health officer

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Mission and objectives

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Context

The World Health Organization works with its Member States to (1) achieve universal coverage, (2) protect people from emergencies and (3) make sure that people enjoy better health and wellbeing. The Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) supports its 22 Member States towards this objective. The department of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Communicable Diseases (DCD) works towards implementation of a UHC approach to the control, elimination or eradication of communicable diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, STIs, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and vaccine preventable diseases. It also includes two cross cutting technical units working on antimicrobial resistance and on public health laboratory services. The United Nations Volunteers will work in the Director’s office to provide support to the scientific work, with a focus of coordinating and integrating the contribution of the different technical units into a consistent vision. While some of the tasks are ancillary in nature, they would provide exposure to WHO policy issue in contest where the feedback from the Director would be an excellent development opportunity for a junior graduate.

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Dr Yvan Hutin, Director, UHC/DCD or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Public Health Officer will: •Assist the Director’s office in the triaging and sorting of the various technical requests to the Department as to identify the level of priority and seniority needed to handle them. •Prepare communications from the Director’s office to the technical units as to facilitate transmission of technical requests to the team in a way that facilitates the work of the technical unit and adds value. •Consolidate input from the technical unit to the Director’s office as to integrate into a framework consistent with DCD vision. •Draft communication from the Directors’ office, including emails, concept notes, and slide presentations under the guidance of the director. •Assist in the maintenance of the database of deliverables for the department of UHC DCD . •Facilitating the coordination of cross cutting initiatives within UHC-DCD. As an active EMRO/DCD team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to WHO/EMRO and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including: 1. achieving universal coverage, 2. protecting people from emergencies 3. making sure that people enjoy better health and wellbeing.