Medical Officer; Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B

The vision of the Division of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Care (PPC) is to advance health for all by anticipating change and integrating promotion, prevention and care across all health and disease areas to address today's greatest health burdens and tomorrow's challenges . Within PPC Division, the Department for HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HTH) aims to lead the global effort to end HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections, by delivering norms & standards, and making sure that every person has equitable access to people-centred scientific evidence, services, and innovations, no matter where they live.

Under the supervision of the Team Lead and overall direction of the Unit Head for People‑Centred Services, Key Populations and Comorbidities (SPC), the incumbent will be responsible for the following:

• Coordinate the development of evidence-based normative guidance and ensure WHO's leadership on EMTCT, together with the Department of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (LHR) is maintained. This includes prevention and treatment for women and girls and early infant service delivery in close collaboration and coordination with the relevant external stakeholders.
• Coordinate revision of WHO guidance related to EMTCT, including for monitoring and evaluation, validation, and approaches, identifying baselines, and targets to advance elimination.
• Provide technical expertise and capacity building support to WHO regional and country offices to disseminate and implement new normative guidance and foster south‑to‑south learning through sharing of best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and support to member states on policy and capacity building for health system strengthening towards integration for elimination and validation, including on monitoring and evaluation related frameworks, human rights commitments, community engagement and gender equity.
• Ensure that early impact and lessons learned on the implementation of guidelines are disseminated at the global level.
• Coordinate the Triple Elimination Initiative for ending paediatric HIV, syphilis and HBV infections globally, utilizing the expert advice and recommendations from WHO designed validation structures at all levels including the Global Validation Advisory Committee (GVAC), regional validation committees (RVCs) and national validation committees (NVCs) in priority countries.
• Coordinate the functioning of the Global Validation Secretariat (GVS) and partnerships for EMTCT validation with other UN agencies and multilateral partners.
• Coordinate revision of EMTCT validation guidance, including for monitoring and evaluation, validation guidelines and approaches, identifying baselines, and targets to advance elimination and its validation.
• Serve as the technical focal point for the EMTCT agenda, including addressing prevention and care responses in non‑pregnant adolescent girls and young women, pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls living with HIV or HBV, or seropositive for syphilis, which requires extensive interagency collaboration.
• Serve as the technical lead for critical and timely updates of existing, biomedical EMTCT and infant service delivery guidelines focused on eliminating paediatric HIV, syphilis and viral hepatitis infections.
• Participate as a technical focal point in relevant interagency fora and partnerships on EMTCT and early infant service delivery, particularly in collaboration with UNICEF and UNAIDS.
• Contribute to intra‑ and inter‑departmental efforts to strengthen the integration of EMTCT responses within primary health care and reproductive health platforms.
• Work closely…