WHO Call for Experts: Malaria Strategic Information Technical Advisory Group (MSI-TAG)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking experts to serve as members one of the Malaria Strategic Information Technical Advisory Group (MSI-TAG). This “Call for experts” provides information about the advisory group in question, the expert profiles being sought, the process to express interest, and the process of selection.
The MSI-TAG will be multidisciplinary, with members who have a range of technical knowledge, skills and experience relevant to surveillance, monitoring and evaluation and the use of strategic information to drive impact. Approximately 12 members may be selected.
Functions of the Malaria Strategic Information Technical Advisory Group
The MSI-TAG will have the following specific functions:
- To provide WHO with independent evaluation of the scientific, technical and strategic aspects of malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation.
- To recommend priorities to WHO and relevant technical units at all levels of the organization to strengthen national malaria surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation systems and the use of data for decision making.
- To advise WHO on approaches to strengthen malaria surveillance systems, improve data quality, enhance system integration, and promote the use of data for national and subnational decision making, to support efficient, effective, and equitable implementation of malaria interventions to communities.
- To support WHO to review and improve the methods for estimation of the malaria burden, investments, interventions and impact for tracking global progress through the annual “World malaria report”.
Full Terms of Reference for the MSI-TAG: Please refer to the link: TOR 2026 MSI TAG.pdf
Important information about the conditions of appointment:
- Members of WHO advisory groups (AGs) must be free of any real, potential or apparent conflicts of interest. To this end, applicants are required to complete the WHO Declaration of Interests for WHO Experts, and the selection as a member of a AG is, amongst other things, dependent on WHO determining that there is no conflict of interest or that any identified conflicts could be appropriately managed (in addition to WHO’s evaluation of an applicant’s experience, expertise and motivation and other criteria).
- All AG members will serve in their individual expert capacity and shall not represent any governments, any commercial industries or entities, any research, academic or civil society organizations, or any other bodies, entities, institutions or organizations. They are expected to fully comply with the Code of Conduct for WHO Experts (https://www.who.int/about/ethics/declarations-of-interest). AG members will be expected to sign and return a completed confidentiality undertaking prior to the beginning of the first meeting.
Any questions about this “Call for experts”, please write to Mrs Corinne Jegouzo at jegouzoc@who.int well before the applicable deadline.
Submission deadline, 15 May 2026.
