Consultant - Health Inequality Monitoring Analysis at World Health Organization (WHO)

World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant - Health Inequality Monitoring Analysis

Job ID: 2409390
Location: Offsite: Home-based 
Contractual Arrangement: External consultant
Contract Duration: 5 months
Organization: HQ/MFI Monitoring, Forecasting & Inequalities
Travel: The consultant will be required to travel

Purpose of consultancy

• The WHO Health Inequality Monitoring team in the Department for Data and Analytics (DNA) in Geneva is seeking a consultant to provide analytical support for global health inequality monitoring.

Background

• Monitoring health inequalities and their drivers is crucial to achieve health equity, which is a key element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aspiration to “leave no one behind” as well as the World Health Organization’s 13th General Programme of Work (GPW 13). Health inequality monitoring is vital for tracking progress towards universal health coverage to ensure that disadvantaged populations achieve accelerated gains alongside overall improvement in the broader population, thus narrowing coverage gaps.
• The health inequality monitoring team at the World Health Organization has developed a package of tools and resources to support inequality monitoring at global and national levels, including a health inequality monitoring handbook, two step-by-step manuals, the Health Inequality Data Repository, and the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit. WHO has substantial experience in developing inequality monitoring tools as well as in building capacity in this area among countries. In addition, WHO conducts monitoring of health inequalities and produces global and national reports of the state of inequality in various health topics. 
• The team has a five-year strategy (2022-2027) that includes three strategic goals: (1) strengthening capacity for health inequality monitoring at country, regional and global levels; (2) generating the latest evidence on health inequality; and (3) developing and refining health inequality monitoring methods, tools, resources and best practices.

Deliverables:

• Within the period of the contract, the consultant will contribute to:

  • Deliverable 1: Releasing the next edition of the Health Inequality Data Repository (HIDR): Analytical support required includes conducting data scoping to identify further data to include in the HIDR; and cleaning and processing identified datasets in the correct format for upload to the HIDR.
  • Deliverable 2: Developing a Global Health Inequality Monitoring Atlas (hereafter referred to as the “Atlas”) of country policies, capacities and resources for inequality monitoring, identifying health inequality monitoring gaps, needs, and solution options for accelerating countries’ capacities to monitor inequalities. Analytical support required involves analysing data collected from countries via a survey, and summarising and reporting the key findings.
  • Deliverable 3: Developing the first global report exploring the state of inequality in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors. Analytical support required includes conducting data scoping; performing comprehensive statistical analysis of micro-level and disaggregated data; and summarizing and reporting findings.
  • Deliverable 4: Producing inequality-related evidence by conducting data analysis on inequalities in health, including but not limited to inequalities in immunization, involving data collation and preparation; analysis of datasets for inter-country comparisons of inequality across different sub-populations; data visualization of results; and contribution to technical writing of analytical reports and papers.
  • Deliverable 5: Supporting capacity-building activities related to health inequality monitoring in countries.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications
Essential:

• University degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, demography, health communication, health information science, data science, or related area.  

Desirable:

• Advanced university degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, demography, health communication, health information science, data science, or related area.

Experience
Essential:

• Up to 5 years’ experience in data analysis using a range of data sources on population health.
• At least 2 years’ experience in data analysis related to health inequalities.
• Experience in writing technical reports and papers, with at least 3 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Experience in data management. 

Skills/Knowledge
Essential:

• Strong understanding of research methods and epidemiological, demographical and statistical principles.
• Excellent knowledge of Stata or R.
• Good knowledge of data visualisation techniques and software packages such as Tableau, R or similar.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of the topic of health equity, health inequality monitoring, and equity analysis.
• Good knowledge of MS Office including SharePoint, Teams, Word and Excel.
• Ability to work independently and remotely in multidisciplinary and multicultural settings. 

Languages and level required
Essential:

• Expert knowledge of English.

Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded)

• Band level A: USD 198 - 349 per day or USD 3,955 - 6,980 per month.

Application Closing Date
24th December, 2024.