Public Health Officer (Strategy and Evaluation)

[What the role is]

You will be involved in the development of evidence-based immunisation recommendations and strategies, keeping them up to date with latest scientific developments and translating them to programme implementation. You will support the review of new and existing vaccines to formulate recommendations at both population and sub-population level, for both endemic and outbreak diseases. This includes supporting relevant expert committees, keeping abreast of the latest research and regulatory developments relating to vaccines of interest, and updating existing immunisation strategies.

In addition, you will be part of a team that also looks into enablers that drive the national immunisation programmes, such as programme evaluation, the National Immunisation Registry and the vaccine injury financial assistance programme. As part of the cross-cutting nature of the work, you will have the opportunity to interact with respective MOH, healthcare and pharmaceutical industry stakeholders, in the design and implementation of these policies and strategies.

[What you will be working on]

• Formulate immunisation policies and strategies to prevent the spread of vaccine preventable diseases
• Keeping the immunisation policies and strategies up to date
• Translating policies and strategies into programme implementation
• Enhance enablers to drive the national immunisation programmes •

[What we are looking for]

• Minimum tertiary qualifications from recognised discipline preferably in public health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, or equivalent or work experience in public health-related field and/or policy would be an added advantage
• Candidates with relevant clinical and vaccinology background are strongly preferred
��� Good personal management and organisational abilities to engage a large variety of stakeholders
• Forward-thinking, analytical mindset
• Good situational awareness regarding global developments in vaccine scientific information and data, manufacturing/ pandemic preparedness, with the ability to integrate these developments with research findings to shape policy
• Good understanding of local and international communicable disease control principles
• Committed to work and willingness to work under pressure