Overview
The CCAC Air Quality and Health Specialist will enhance government capacity to provide scientific expertise on the interlinkages between SLCPs, air pollution, and human health, ensuring mitigation strategies deliver improvements in air quality and public health.
Key Responsibilities
- Strengthen scientific foundation for integrating health and air quality evidence into SLCP mitigation policies.
- Develop exposure-health impact assessment reports, health-integrated mitigation briefings, and pollution and health hotspot maps.
- Provide technical input notes for national SLCP planning and sectoral policy development.
- Equip government teams with tools, methods, and datasets to quantify health outcomes and track improvements.
- Deliver training sessions and materials on conducting health co-benefit analyses.
- Provide sectoral authorities with evidence-based technical guidance to maximize public health benefits.
- Develop sector-specific technical guidance documents, health-prioritized mitigation portfolios, and rapid-response advisory notes.
- Prepare consolidated knowledge products informing national and international reporting.
- Produce health-integrated air quality and SLCP datasets, case studies, and annual reports.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5–7 years of experience analyzing air pollutants and super pollutant emissions, and associated health impacts, preferably in Latin America or middle-income countries.
- Expertise in air pollution science and SLCPs, including sources, chemistry, and behavior of pollutants like PM₂.₅, ozone precursors, black carbon, and methane, and their atmospheric interactions.
- Strong background in environmental health and exposure assessment, including analyzing pollutant exposure effects on human health, interpreting epidemiological evidence, and applying health impact assessment methodologies and tools.
- Demonstrated experience with health impact assessment methodologies, including the use of models.
- Experience with policy design and its implementation integrating health evidence and measurable health outcomes/co-benefits.
- Strong understanding of environmental policy and public health policies, and assessment of health co-benefits of clean air and climate policies in Mexico.
- Excellent communication skills to translate complex health and environmental science for non-specialists.
- Proven experience preparing technical reports, stakeholder engagement materials, or capacity-building content related to climate change, SLCPs, or air pollution.
- Experience working with government and/or international development partners in the environmental/climate sector.
- Proficiency in air quality monitoring, modeling, and data interpretation.
- Ability to estimate co-benefits of mitigation actions, linking SLCP and air quality interventions to health, climate, and economic benefits.
- Knowledge of national climate, air quality, and health sector governance, familiarity with Mexico’s regulatory frameworks, institutional arrangements, and policies.
- Strong analytical and technical communication skills to translate scientific evidence into policy-relevant guidance.
- Experience supporting multisector planning and implementation across environment, health, energy, agriculture, and transport sectors.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in environmental health, epidemiology, public health, atmospheric science, or a closely related field.
- A first-level university degree combined with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
