Public Health Specialist (Innovative case finding & Surveillance)

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About the Organization

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

Job Description

WJCF is seeking a highly motivated individual with demonstrated experience in providing technical support for the implementation, coordination, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of TB or other health national strategic and operational plans at both national and subnational level. The role will involve 40% travel across the country in service of the NTEP.

Job Responsibilities

• Technical assistance & monitoring support to public health activities pertaining to innovative case finding & surveillance.
• Provide technical guidance on planning, scaling & monitoring of Active case finding, Intensified case finding and other targeted interventions for the high risk groups.
• Assist in creating detailed framework on micro-plans for ACF activities at community levels in collaboration with other programmes/departments/stakeholders.
• Provide insight into the Screening/diagnostic algorithm with respect to newer near point of care and high throughput diagnostics and its integration to the ACF workflow.
• Support development and implementation of clinical, diagnostic & case management systems, tools, and protocols for patient monitoring, follow-up, and retention, including outreach services with respect to active case finding.
• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation framework for ACF performance, including analysing data and generating actionable reports using Nikshay, Nikshay analytic tools/other tools.
• To provide support to TB surveillance through technical support to Sub National certification, TB Free Panchayat etc.
• To document the best practices, success stories, learnings pertaining to innovative case finding & surveillance.
• To extend technical support to Operational Research projects being carried out under CTD guidance on innovative case finding & Surveillance.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Medical graduate (MBBS) with minimum 8 years of experience in Tuberculosis control OR MD (Community Medicine/Respiratory Medicine/ Internal Medicine/Medicine) with minimum 7 years of experience OR MPH (Infectious Diseases/Epidemiology/ Epidemiology and Health Systems/ Field Epidemiology) with minimum 8 years of experience.
• Field experience in clinical and programmatic management of TB/DR-TB in a resource-constrained setting
• Experience with project monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Experience with data analysis, coding, and health information systems, ideally with a health/TB program

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