OBS Health System Experts (Roster), Brussels, Belgium
World Health Organization (WHO)
Job Description
OBS Health System Experts (Roster) - ( 1805747 )
Grade : No grade
Contractual Arrangement : External consultant
Contract duration : Various
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Job Posting : Nov 14, 2018, 6:52:50 PM
Closing Date : Dec 31, 2019, 10:59:00 PM
Primary Location : Belgium-Brussels
Other Locations : United Kingdom-London
Organization : EU/OBS - European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
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- Background and Justification
- Job Description
- Describing and analysing health systems and the changes they undergo;
- Mapping trends and making comparisons (including with relevant countries outside Europe) to support European policy making;
- Mobilizing experience from practice across Europe to give insights into policy issues;
- Working in partnership with governments, international organisations, academics, policy-makers and practitioners to provide evidence and evidence-informed policy options to national and European policy-makers;
- Employing (and developing) a range of knowledge brokering tools to communicate effectively with policy-makers;
- Feeding evidence into the wider health policy debate.
- Provide expertise in two or more of the following key health system areas
- 1 Health Financing (including the economics of health, paying for services, instruments and mechanisms, investment in health, value for money and sustainability)
- 2 Service delivery (including integrated care, patient centred health systems, primary care-hospital care-social care pathways, and caring for ageing populations)
- 3 Governance (at provider, health system, inter-sectoral and EU levels and including regulation universal coverage, AMR, public health and health in all policies)
- 4 Health systems performance assessment (including measurement and management, quality, patient safety, responsiveness, efficiency and equity)
- 5 Health workforce (including skill mix, planning, retention, mobility, and informal care)
- 6 Innovation in organization and technologies and implementing change (innovation strategies; scaling up and rolling out; the transferability of policy options)
- 7 Knowledge brokering (including working face to face with senior decision makers in governments and agencies, providing advice on evidence based options, writing, editing and publishing on health systems issues).
- Take part in research and analysis so as to equip the Observatory with evidence to support European Region Member States and international bodies in their efforts to strengthen health systems. This will entail a mix of the following
- 1 Scoping and horizon scanning activities to identify policy concerns; mapping existing research; and identifying policy relevant gaps in evidence
- 2 Background research including literature review, comprehensive synthesis of existing evidence and / or primary research to fill policy relevant gaps
- 3 Development of conceptual frameworks, definitions, study structures, terms of reference, templates and proposals for studies and for grants
- 4 Advancing and advising on methodologies to ensure research best meets policy needs
- 5 Mobilizing experts and research to expand Observatory networks
- 6 Authoring chapters, articles and reports
- 7 Editing, revising and supporting the delivery of chapters, articles and reports
- 8 Reviewing chapters, articles and reports to ensure quality
- 9 Supporting and / or co-leading secondary research or analytic projects.
- Take part in knowledge brokering to share the evidence generated and to provide senior policy makers with direct access to expertise and insight that will enable them to take better informed decisions on concrete policy challenges. This will involve a range of the following
- 1 Helping to Design and / or deliver strategic policy dialogues and other tailored interventions including national and international evidence briefings and symposia, so that policy makers can assimilate technical and comparative evidence and apply it in context
- 2 Helping to design and / or deliver ‘rapid responses’ to address emerging and urgent policy questions in a timely manner in writing and / or face to face
- 3 Contributing to the development, writing and revision of policy briefs that capture and share policy relevant evidence for a practitioner audience
- 4 Presenting evidence at conferences, meetings and other events
- 5 Contributing to and / or taking a role in the design technical development and delivery of the Observatory’s Summer School
- 6 Briefing and / or working directly with senior Ministry of Health figures and relevant counterparts in other ministries (finance, welfare, education) or in sub-national government, and with WHO, Observatory Partners, the European Commission and other international bodies on policy options and facilitating high level discussion to directly support decision making within the Observatory’s non-normative knowledge brokering framework
- Recruitment Profile