Overview
Consultant to support WHO AFRO in strengthening the measurement, analysis, and use of SRHR expenditure data through improvements to health expenditure tracking methodologies and enhanced analysis of National Health Accounts data across the African Region.
Key Responsibilities
- Support refinement of the SHA methodology for SRHR expenditure tracking, including reviewing classifications, developing refined classifications, contributing to technical guidance, preparing background documents, and supporting validation consultations.
- Support piloting of the SRHR expenditure tracking methodology by providing technical support to pilot countries, reviewing mapping approaches, participating in technical reviews, documenting lessons learned, and contributing to methodology finalization.
- Strengthen regional NHA data management and analysis by compiling and organizing NHA datasets, reviewing production files, extracting detailed expenditure information, developing standardized approaches for data management, and supporting quality assurance.
- Conduct analytical work on health and SRHR expenditures by analyzing NHA data, producing analyses on various health expenditures, conducting expenditure analyses by different categories, identifying financing patterns, and supporting the development of analytical products.
- Support dissemination and evidence use by contributing to briefs, preparing presentations and reports, supporting learning activities, and contributing to evidence products.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience in health financing, health expenditure tracking, National Health Accounts, or health economics.
- Demonstrated experience working with the SHA 2011 framework and National Health Accounts production.
- Experience analyzing health expenditure data and producing analytical reports.
- Experience working with large datasets and quantitative analysis.
- Experience supporting countries in the production or use of National Health Accounts.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's level or above) in health economics, economics, public health, health financing, statistics, epidemiology, development economics, or another relevant field.
