Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality. A worldwide movement MSF was founded in Paris, France in 1971. Its principles are described in the organisation’s founding charter. It is a non-profit, self-governed organisation. Today, MSF is a worldwide movement of 24 associations, bound together as MSF International, based in Switzerland. Thousands of health professionals, logistical and administrative staff – most of whom are hired locally – work on programmes in some 70 countries worldwide. Humanitarian action MSF’s work is based on humanitarian principles. We are committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation. MSF operates independently. We conduct our own evaluations on the ground to determine people’s needs. More than 90 per cent of our overall funding comes from millions of private sources, not governments. MSF is neutral. We do not take sides in armed conflicts, we provide care on the basis of need, and we push for independent access to victims of conflict as required under international humanitarian law. Bearing witness and speaking out MSF medical teams often witness violence and neglect in the course of their work, largely in regions that receive scant international attention. At times, MSF may speak out publicly in an effort to bring a forgotten crisis to public attention, to alert the public to abuses occurring beyond the headlines, to criticise the inadequacies of the aid system, or to challenge the diversion of humanitarian aid for political interests. Quality medical care MSF rejects the idea that poor people deserve third-rate medical care and strives to provide high-quality care to patients. In 1999, when MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the organisation announced the money would go towards raising awareness of and fighting against neglected diseases. Through the Access Campaign, and in partnership with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, this work has helped lower the price of HIV/AIDS treatment and stimulated research and development for medicines to treat malaria and neglected diseases like sleeping sickness and kala azar.
- Job Type: Contract
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience: 3 years
- Location: Abuja
- Job Field: Medical / Healthcare , Science
Main Purpose
- Defining, coordinating and monitoring the epidemiological activities, ensuring the development of appropriate methodology and the quality of studies according to MSF protocols, standards and procedures to identify risk factors for diseases and to determine the optimal treatment approaches to clinical practice and the preventive medicine to be used in the mission.
Job Description
- Carry out key epidemiological activities in outbreak investigation and advising on the operational response
- Implement and maintain a surveillance system to monitor epidemiological trends of relevant outbreak-prone diseases.
- Monitor and Implement initial Assessment for emergency, rapid health assessments and baseline or follow-up surveys.
- Prepare and adapt routine documentation (survey forms, training materials, letters of request/notification, locally appropriate consent forms etc.) with support of HQ epidemiologist.
- Manage data systems and ensuring accurate, high-quality databases, analyzing results and preparing regular written reports on progress and findings for medical coordinator/HQ
- Provide training sessions to medical teams on relevant aspects of epidemiology to enhance team response capacity
- Advising MSF medical teams on epidemiological matters that arise during their activity research, and when necessary, design and implement epidemiological tools and data collection to meet new epidemiological needs.
Requirements
Education:
- Medical Doctor, Nurse or Biomedical background with a Degree (or Master’s) in Epidemiology or Public Health with extensive training in statistics and epidemiology
Experience:
- At least three years of tropical medicine experience (having assumed coordination position is a plus)
- Experience in field epidemiology
Language:
- Mission language essential
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Medecins Sans Frontieres on docs.google.com to apply
