Senior Technical Advisor - Health Economics, Global Health Security, Antimicrobial Resistance

Senior Technical Advisor - Health Economics, Global Health Security, Antimicrobial Resistance

Organization: Palladium

Location: Washington DC

Duration: Through September 30, 2026

Reports to
:
Director

Type of assignment: Consultancy

Palladium is engaging an advisor to respond to the requirements of donors in the field of global health security, infectious diseases of pandemic potential, antimicrobial resistance and health economics and health finance. We wish to build a team of technical advisors to work in multiple countries to address the integration of program implementation, technical advice and health economics addressing the sustainability of interventions with the country Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance.

The US State Department is currently engaging multiple countries to sign 3-5 year Memoranda of Understanding, followed by the development of implementation plans for the health funding support, with a focus on Government to Government (G2G) funding against measurable outcome and impact targets. These funds will be applied across a range of priorities, including global health security, laboratory strengthening, infectious disease, among others.

Palladium seeks to engage a Senior Technical Advisor with deep expertise in health economics, economic modeling, and policy translation to guide analytical approaches, validate assumptions, and strengthen rapid response analyses and products for country governments and other clients.

A. The Senior Technical Advisor will assist Palladium in defining the response to the US State Department requirements for transition of the previous funding models and program implementation to G2G funding implementation plans, measured by target linked outcomes and impact. This activity will be supported by Palladium during the grant application stages.

B. The Senior Advisor will provide high-level technical leadership and advisory support for the design, implementation, and refinement of health economics, modeling, and analytical activities. The Senior Advisor will ensure that economic analyses are methodologically sound, policy-relevant, and compelling to both health and non-health decision-makers. The role is advisory and strategic in nature, complementing technical teams and country partners rather than duplicating implementation responsibilities.

C:
Additional country specific engagements may be added to this agreement by modification.

Whereas the Department of State is shifting the emphasis of international support for health towards G2G funding, the in-country counterpart government MOH, MOA, MIS and MOF require assistance to establish health finance activities in the transition from the MOU to an implementation plan. These activities will include:

• Accessing existing models of health cost for HIV, TB, Malaria and other infectious diseases, primary health care and laboratory capacitation
• Apply the modeling to multiple country situational analyses to identify progress towards disease elimination, cost-efficient interventions and health finance requirements
• With the country coordinating mechanism, identify and prioritize the interventions to be implemented, taking into account the available resources and donor coordination
• Support Palladium activities to establish the G2G approach, including the gap analysis, target setting, monitoring and public management finance act fiscal controls.

The Senior Technical Advisor will support a variety of activities, including:

• Estimating the health and economic burden of infectious diseases of pandemic potential, including antimicrobial resistance by conducting an analysis of health system costs and broader economic impacts (e.g., productivity losses, preventable mortality, outbreak risks).
• Conducting a costing analysis of implementing hospital- and primary-care based interventions to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks, including investments required…