Overview
Consultant to develop and integrate climate-sensitive disease reporting and analytics on a national HMIS platform, focusing on AI and capacity building for health professionals.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development to leverage existing locally owned health information systems, incorporating climate-sensitive infectious diseases data and predictive modelling features.
- Build on existing disease surveillance systems on the national HMIS platform by integrating climate and weather data.
- Map disease risk and suitability using data on relevant climactic conditions and historical epidemiological data.
- Develop predictive models and generate forecasts based on relationships between environmental factors and disease outbreaks.
- Support and build capacities of national and regional managers to plan interventions and resource allocation.
- Train and support managers at national and regional levels to respond to localized early warnings.
- Build capacities of managers to generate evidence on the impact of climate change on disease burden.
Required Experience
- At least 10 years experience in managing country Health Information Systems deployment and management on a DHIS2 platform.
- Expert knowledge in DHIS2.
- Experienced in developing successful training plans capacity building of senior and middle level managers.
- Large scale DHIS2 customization and implementation at country level.
- Skilled in designing, deploying, and managing national-level digital health solutions, leveraging a solid background in public health, computer science, and geo-information science.
- Ability to translate technical requirements into business solutions with a successful record of building positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Essential: Masters’ Degree or higher in health informatics, or public health, and undergraduate training in Health Information/Health Informatics .
- Desirable: Post graduate in Geo Information Science
