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Health Informatics Specialist – African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)
Job Title: Health Informatics
Specialist
Specialist
Organisation: African
Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)
Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda
Kampala, Uganda
About US:
The African Field
Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is a not for profit, networking alliance and
service organization that brings together field epidemiology training programs
(FETPs) across Africa working side by side with Ministries of Health, regional
and international partners. AFENET works to strengthen epidemiological and
disease surveillance capabilities of African countries that are critical to
meeting the requirements of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response
(IDSR) strategy and the International Health Regulations (IHR).
Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is a not for profit, networking alliance and
service organization that brings together field epidemiology training programs
(FETPs) across Africa working side by side with Ministries of Health, regional
and international partners. AFENET works to strengthen epidemiological and
disease surveillance capabilities of African countries that are critical to
meeting the requirements of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response
(IDSR) strategy and the International Health Regulations (IHR).
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide technical and strategic assistance to Ministry of Health to
assure that information systems and other eHealth activities are
implemented in line with the Health policy and strategy. - Participate in and coordinate ongoing information system application
testing, implementation, and evaluation with project teams across Ministry
of Health. - Designs workflows and processes for data management and then
translate systems requirements into applications prototypes; plan and
design systems and applications architecture. - Participate in evaluation of the adoption of automated information
systems to accommodate special and complex needs of Ministry of Health. - Work with vendors, IT professionals, and public health program areas
to develop system requirements and plan, develop, and maintain health
information systems. - Establish appropriate data security provisions and protocols to
enable access to and maintenance of public health data and personal health
information. - Monitor and evaluate electronic operation processes and practices
for quality and effectiveness and makes recommendations for improvement. - Anticipate the impact that new or modified software will have on
existing standards and systems, workforce, and public health programs, and
makes recommendations for solutions. - Provide or arrange for technical assistance and/or training for
system users. - Conduct literature reviews, and prepares informatics models,
frameworks, or summary documents as needed. - Prepare presentation, communications materials, press releases, and
other media-related materials as regards to digital health implementation.
- Work with stakeholders for eHealth issues to advance agency goals
and objectives and identity areas of collaboration with partners to
support eHealth policy and strategy implementation. - Ensure consistency with, leverage, and seek to influence as
appropriate, national standards and certification initiatives to achieve
interoperability. - Support use of informatics practices to integrate clinical health,
environmental health, and population health data to improve priority
community level health outcomes. - Advise on health information vocabularies and data standards (e.g.
HL7, ICD, LOINC and SNOMED codes) Information system design, development
and management. - Provides recommendationsto senior leadership, as requested, to
support decisions on information systems requirements and procurement. - Carry out any duties as assigned by supervisor
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Health Informatics, Health Science, clinical science, Public Policy or Health Policy, Health
Information Sciences, or closely related field - Master’s degree in public health informatics, health informatics or
a related field and four (4) years of experience in informatics including
demonstrated experience in public health practice. - Experience and knowledge:
- Uganda’s healthcare systems and practices.
- Strategies for achieving effective data acquisition, management,
quality, storage, use, and application to address population health needs.
- Applicable laws, statues, and policies regarding health information
including security, privacy, and management of confidential data. - Public health reporting, information system standards, and public
health data for Uganda - Workflow engineering and Informatics project/product portfolio
management. - information Technology Lifecycle and information system design.
- Data collection and use methodologies, including survey research,
registry operations, usability studies, focus groups, and interview data
collection and analysis.
How to Apply:
All interested
candidates should submit their Application letters detailing their experiences
and skills, curriculum vitae, copies of relevant academic documents and 3
references online to: The Human Resource Office, African Field Epidemiology
Network (AFENET) via sec@afenet.net.
candidates should submit their Application letters detailing their experiences
and skills, curriculum vitae, copies of relevant academic documents and 3
references online to: The Human Resource Office, African Field Epidemiology
Network (AFENET) via sec@afenet.net.
NB: ONLY successful
candidates shall be contacted for an interview.
candidates shall be contacted for an interview.
Deadline: 15th February 2019
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