Senior Program Officer, Vaccines and Immunization Center for Vaccine Access and Innovation
PATH is a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. With expertise in science, health, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and innovative approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide.
PATH’s Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against 15 different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis. We work in partnership with national health ministries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, donors, international financing and regulatory organizations, and many others. PATH has led numerous global partnerships, including the award-winning Meningitis Vaccine Project and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which helped develop the first malaria vaccine candidate recommended for pilot implementation.
Policy, Access, and Introduction (PAI) supports the integration of vaccines for public health impact and disease control in developing countries. We focus on activities that facilitate vaccine introduction and widespread use in national immunization programs, such as determining disease burden, conducting clinical trials, establishing the health economics of vaccine use, raising awareness of disease burden and the impact of vaccination, increasing availability of technologies through licensing and commercialization, and advocating for appropriate policies. In addition, we implement activities that improve the accessibility of high-quality immunization services, including training, supervision, health information systems, and immunization safety, logistics, and communications.
PAI is currently recruiting for a Senior Program Officer to lead and support vaccine implementation programs across Africa and Asia. As a public health expert and vaccine implementation leader, the Officer will provide leadership to ongoing efforts within PATH’s current portfolio, as well as development and cultivation of new opportunities. The initial priorities include leadership of a global typhoid vaccine implementation program, and support for African regional immunization projects. The SPO will engage closely with all program stakeholders including ministries of health, partners, and PATH staff across the organization to ensure successful achievement of project and program goals.
We seek candidates with who are experts in immunization programs and systems to help design, implement and monitor strategies that protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases across some of the highest risk areas of Africa and Asia. Background and experience in epidemiology is highly desirable. The Senior Program Officer will work closely with project teams within PAI, as well as PATH’s country office staff across other programs. The position will be based in Africa and will require up to 30% domestic and international travel.
RESPONSIBILITIES
VACCINE IMPLEMENTATION
Lead PATH’s typhoid vaccine implementation team including:
Provide technical and programmatic expertise for vaccine introduction work that may include Japanese encephalitis, rotavirus, meningitis, HPV, among others.
Engage regularly with key stakeholders at global, regional and country levels, including health ministries, NGO partners, UN agencies, manufacturers and others as relevant.
Assist vaccine teams in preparing technical documents, reports, and manuscripts for PATH materials, multimedia outlets, and peer-reviewed journals.
Present project work and findings to local and international stakeholders.
Regularly engage with other PATH project staff to discuss relevant program and country support activities.
Leverage an understanding of the immunization landscape and trends to develop new opportunities for work that will have impact in low and middle-income countries (LMIC’s).
IMMUNIZATION SYSTEM STRENGTHENING
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IMMUNIZATION SYSTEMS AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH
Required Skills Required Experience
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Must have legal authorization to work in the country of application.
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