Health Information Associate, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Category : Post-Grad Student Opportunities
Overview
- The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org
- CHAI’s global malaria program provides direct technical and operational support to countries around the globe to strengthen their malaria programs and reduce the burden of this preventable, treatable disease. We support governments to scale up effective interventions for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance, with the goals of sustainably reducing the number of malaria-related illnesses and deaths worldwide in the short-term and accelerating progress towards malaria elimination in the long term.
Overview of Role
- CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual to work as a Health Information Associate to support the development, implementation, and assessment of a new suite of digital solutions to improve malaria surveillance systems.
- The Associate will liaise between technical partners and CHAI implementation teams to test, package, and roll out an upgraded malaria information system and accompanying mobile tools across 10 priority countries in Mesoamerica and Hispaniola, Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. This work will include supporting regional and country team members in testing new software applications, capturing end user needs, assessing pilot results, developing implementation and scale-up strategy, and packaging lessons learned for the Digital Solutions for Malaria Elimination (DSME) community.
- A successful candidate will need to possess strong communication, organizational, and management skills as well as be able to work independently to drive implementation and have deep personal commitment to producing results. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities including resourcefulness, tenacity, independence, patience, humility, and strong work ethic.
Responsibilities
- M&E activities of the digital solutions (30%)
- Project management and partner coordination (20%)
- Testing of digital solutions meet end user needs (15%)
- Implementation of digital solutions to government end users (15%)
- Knowledge management and dissemination (15%)
- Other tasks, as required (5%)
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