Overview
The Medical and Public Health Specialist will support the strengthening of public health services and systems across the FSM, focusing on improving healthcare delivery, enhancing surveillance systems, and contributing to preparedness, detection, and response to public health events.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide health care services to population in the islands and at the local college.
- Train local staff and students in healthcare, foundational sciences, traditional medicine.
- Contribute to all aspects of prevention, preparedness, early detection, response and recovery from acute public health events.
- Support implementation of surveillance through Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) components.
- Support verification, risk assessment, monitoring and information-sharing on diseases, conditions and events that may constitute a public health emergency of international concern.
- Participate in Field Epidemiology activities, including rapid deployment to areas affected by emergencies and outbreaks.
- Perform tasks such as data entry, validation and analyses to assist in the formulation of briefing documents and other informational materials.
- Support development of communication products such as situation reports, bulletins, alerts, and other ad-hoc reports.
- Participate in activities development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), guidelines, tools and manuals.
- Support capacity building and training of colleagues; Perform other related responsibilities as assigned, including replacing and backstopping for others as required.
Required Experience
- At least three (3) years of clinical practice experience with a successful track record in epidemiology, public health surveillance, outbreak control, information management, and quantitative methods.
- Medical physician with combined clinical and public health experience.
- Knowledgeable and capable of responding effectively to public health emergencies.
- Experience in designing and implementing large databases, managing complex information flows, and conducting quantitative research and interpretation.
- Experience in responding to complex humanitarian crises.
- Experience in teaching, training, or academic instruction within medical, nursing, or public health institutions.
- Experience working with WHO or UN organizations is considered an asset.
- Demonstrated expertise in clinical practice, field epidemiology, quantitative methods, and surveillance of emerging and re-emerging diseases in multidisciplinary environments.
- Proven ability to link routine health information and epidemiological data to project planning, service delivery, and policy decision-making.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Public Health.
- Candidates must be fully qualified medical doctors (MD or equivalent) with strong clinical experience and demonstrated competence in public health practice; must possess medical licenses in country of origin/residence and meet licensing requirement of host country.
