The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Call for Experts: Multi-Communicable Disease Elimination Regional Technical Advisory Group (MCDE-RTAG).
The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is seeking candidates to join the Multi-Communicable Disease Elimination Regional Technical Advisory Group (MCDE-RTAG).
WHO welcomes applications from professionals with expertise in communicable disease prevention, surveillance, diagnostics, treatment, modelling, laboratories, vector control, health systems and other cross-cutting areas.
Who can express interest?
Scientists, healthcare professionals, healthcare regulators and technical leaders and focal points at the Ministry of Health, with expertise in the following areas relevant to communicable diseases elimination :
- Communicable diseases prevention, epidemiology and surveillance, diagnosis, clinical management, treatment, and monitoring and evaluation
- Statistics, disease modelling and research, including the use of Artificial Intelligence solutions for communicable diseases prevention, diagnosis and management.
- Integrated disease surveillance
- Laboratory and diagnostics
- Entomology and vector control
- Disease elimination
- Health systems and programme delivery including health financing, supply chain management; and/or
- Implementation, social and behavioural sciences, ethics, equity, human rights and gender in public health.,
- Relevant technical expertise in cross-cutting areas relevant to communicable disease elimination, including community engagement, One Health, climate, environmental and social determinants, WASH, population mobility and cross-border collaboration.
In selecting members, consideration will be given to attaining an adequate distribution of technical expertise, geographical representation and gender balance.
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Application deadline, 5 September 2026.
