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Program Overview
A healthy and productive society is among the ambitious targets of vision Rwanda 2050. Despite remarkable achievements in the past two decades, progress in maternal and neonatal mortality, as well as stunting, is lagging. At the same time, the country is facing an epidemiological transition, with a growing burden of non-communicable diseases, as well as new and emerging threats. To accelerate progress in maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH), and ensure all Rwandans have affordable access to quality care, the Government has committed to strengthening the primary health care system by identifying four priority PHC reform areas:
Executing each of these priorities is dependent on generation and utilization of real time quality data at all levels within the health sector to inform policy decisions, guide implementation, and apply the necessary reform for improvement. Establishing a sustainable culture and consistent practice of institution-wide quality evidence generation and use for policy decision is resource intensive and demands dedicated capacity, including a highly skilled team at the highest leadership level at MoH.
As such, the Ministry is establishing a new Policy Hub to effect institutionalized data-driven policy analysis and guidance for the implementation of the priority health sector reforms. The Policy Hub is currently stationed within the Planning, M&E and Health Financing department and will work closely with technical departments at all stages of policy development and implementation, and over time will aim to support a sustainable culture of data use for decision-making across the health system. The Policy Hub will be complemented by a National Health Intelligence Center (NHIC) charged with leveraging routine evidence generation (where possible, collecting additional data as needed), advanced analytics, interpretation and proactively analyzing and using the information to inform key policy decision.
Position Overview
CHAI is seeking a Senior Public Health Policy Advisor as key coordinator for this newly established Policy Hub. The policy advisor will focus on optimal use of existing evidence within the health sector using advanced data analytics tools and technology unit, the National Health Intelligence Center (NHIC) dedicated to serve this purpose to generate quality policy analysis, apply visualization tools (dashboards), policy briefs, and presentations to respond to critical policy questions and inform data driven decisions by leadership and managers across all levels of the health system. In the near term, s/he will focus on the priority reform agenda—including data used to inform the design, planning, resource mobilization, and allocation to strengthen the PHC performance management and improvement system.
The policy advisor will work closely with data scientists within the NHIC and other technical advisors to design and conduct analysis and to interpret and communicate data for decision-making and publication. This could include developing policy briefs and presentations that bring together data to answer critical policy and planning questions. It will also include development of scientific publications, infographic reports, and other communications and advocacy outputs that can also be used to share learnings at local, regional and global levels.
The Advisor will be directly supervised by and accountable to Director, PMEHF department. The priority tasks will be set out by the Head of Department and the hub expert will generate the necessary high quality evidence analysis and policy recommendations to inform decision. The candidate will therefore be seconded to the Ministry of Health, reporting directly to the head of the planning department. S/He also reports in parallel to CHAI, Health Systems Strengthening Associate Director for specific CHAI-supported initiatives.
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