WHO Call for Experts: WHO/Europe Scientific Advisory Board
The WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) is seeking experts to serve as a member of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). 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.
Functions of the WHO/Europe Scientific Advisory Board
In its capacity as an advisory body to WHO/Europe, the SAB shall have the following functions:
- Methodological guidance: providing expert advice on the methodologies to be used for evidence generation, synthesis, appraisal, validation and grading to ensure they meet high scientific standards.
- Knowledge gaps: identifying critical knowledge gaps and methodological risks that may hinder the implementation of regional health priorities and the response to evolving health threats.
- Knowledge translation and contextualization: advising on how to translate complex scientific evidence into clear, actionable and feasible policy options that take into account the specific context of diverse Member States.
- Practical evidence formats: advising on the development of user-friendly, concise, actionable evidence outputs that are tailored to the needs of policy makers, and communicate uncertainties, feasibility considerations and implications for diverse health system contexts.
- Capacity-building: developing recommendations for the responsible use of AI and other digital tools in WHO/Europe’s evidence work, for strengthening WHO/Europe’s internal capacities across the full evidence‑to‑policy spectrum.
- Ad-hoc requests: responding to scientific and methodological questions that may arise from WHO/Europe’s technical work.
Who can express interest?
The SAB will be composed of up to 10 members, who collectively represent a broad and multidisciplinary range of technical knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the work of WHO/Europe.
WHO/Europe welcomes expressions of interest from applicants with expertise in or across the following disciplines, but not limited to:
- Health systems and services research; Public health sciences;
- Epidemiology and biostatistics;
- Health economics and health technology assessment (HTA);
- Implementation science and knowledge translation;
- Data science and AI;
- Behavioural and social sciences;
- Human rights law, public health law and bioethics.
Read more here to apply.
Application deadline, 15 April 2026.
