Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Specialist

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by helping public and private organizations throughout the world to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information. Working from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington, Virginia and Cambridge, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65 nations is highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and commitment to making a lasting difference in health.  We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

 

MSH is seeking candidates for the upcoming five-year project African Strategies for Health (ASH). The project is to work with African institutions, other development partners and partners within the USG provide a strategic vision for guiding investments to further the health of Africans. In support of this vision, the project will conduct reviews, assessments and a dialogue with partners working in the field to improve the understanding of constraints impeding the realization of the vision and the reaching of the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) by identifying potential solutions to overcome those constraints; and advance the objective to improve knowledge management by documenting lessons learned and disseminating the lessons to the broader development community.

 

The Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Technical Specialist will provide overall guidance and leadership to the project, to AFR and to African partners in the areas of maternal, newborn, and child health strategies. The MNCH Technical Specialist will address the lack of skilled birth attendance, improve quality of emergency obstetric and newborn care, respectful care during childbirth, provide further integration of HIV and TB interventions, scale up essential newborn care including newborn resuscitation, and expanding community-based approaches to newborn care.  The MNCH Technical Specialist will provide technical assistance in Child Health with a focus on household and community, approaches to improve child health including: infant and young child feeding, immunization, diarrheal disease control, family planning and the smart integration of these program components and with other health programs such as those addressing HIV/AIDS.  They will also address reproductive health and family planning for improvement of maternal health, newborn and child survival and reduce the adverse consequences of the youth bulge (in the long run), including consideration of the prevention of maternal transmission of HIV/AIDS to their newborn infants.