Program Associate, Data Scientist, Yaounde, Cameroon

Program Associate, Data Scientist, Yaounde, Cameroon Organization: Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) Country: Cameroon City: Yaoundé Office: CHAI Yaoundé, Cameroon Overview 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. CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally. At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture. Cameroon Program Overview CHAI started working in Cameroon in 2007 with a focus on improving access to HIV diagnosis, care, and treatment. We are helping to increase access to paediatric and second line antiretrovirals, as well as strengthening HIV laboratory systems to better diagnose the disease. Since then, our partnership with the government of Cameroon has evolved to include cross-cutting health system strengthening efforts, including supporting the rollout of universal health coverage. We are also working to strengthen the health product supply chain, introduce and roll out innovative point-of-care technologies and cold chain equipment to ensure the potency and delivery of lifesaving vaccinations. CHAI has also supported the government in its efforts to save the lives of women and infants through mentoring of healthcare workers, increasing access to long-acting contraceptives, and introducing new and improved vaccines for diseases such as cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), rotavirus, diarrhoea, and poliomyelitis. CHAI is equally supporting the government to improve access to medical oxygen and the national public health laboratory to decentralize COVID-19 testing. In addition, we are collaborating with the Ministry of Public Health (MoH) to improve access to cancer treatment by lowering prices and enabling procurement of key chemotherapy drugs. Furthermore, we are working with the government through its National Malaria Control Program, to build sustainable access to timely and high-quality information across relevant levels of the health system and help programs to routinely use data and generated analytics to inform programmatic and strategic planning and operations. CHAI has recently launched strategic partnerships with the Cameroon MoH to address persistent gender-based health inequities by strengthening the measurement and use of women’s health data, and strengthen maternal, neonatal, child health (MNCH), sexual and reproductive health (SRH), family planning, diagnostics, supply chains, and health data systems. This effort responds to critical gaps in Cameroon’s health data ecosystem, where existing systems often fail to capture the intersectional and structural determinants impacting women’s health outcomes. The initiative aims at: (1) developing and piloting of a Women’s Health Equity Index (WHEI), a gender-sensitive, multidimensional tool designed to uncover hidden disparities and inform equitable health planning at national and subnational levels and (2) improving reproductive health outcomes by strengthening diagnostic readiness, supply chains, integrated service delivery, and data systems, (3) supporting data visualization and analysis across. Ultimately, these projects will equip decision-makers with robust, disaggregated data to support evidence-based planning, resource allocation, and advocacy aligned with Cameroon’s National Health Development Plan (PNDS 2020–2027) on one hand. On the other hand, they concur to Cameroon’s vision to improve universal access to quality health services, articulated in Vision 2035 and operationalized through the National Development Strategy (SND30), prioritizing strengthened health and human capital systems, including the expansion of family planning and improved maternal health outcomes. Overview of the role CHAI Cameroon seeks a highly motivated, detail-oriented, and analytical individual to serve as Program Associate, Data Scientist. This is a mid-level technical role supporting CHAI’s data-driven projects,