The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) is currently accepting applications from public health professionals with managerial or directive experience in public health, international relations or related areas for the Edmundo Granda Ugalde Leaders in international Health Program (LIHP). The application deadline is 7 March 2014.
Washington, DC, 19 February 2014 - The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) is currently accepting applications from public health professionals with managerial or directive experience in public health, international relations or related areas for the Edmundo Granda Ugalde Leaders in international Health Program (LIHP). The application deadline is 7 March 2014.
Twenty applicants will be selected to participate in the eight-month program, which takes place between May and December. Participants remain in their own country, working in their own institutions under the guidance of a program coordination in the PAHO/WHO Country Office. The format allows participants to continuously integrate learning into their own institutional and national context as well as to share knowledge with in-country colleagues.
During the program's first phase, participants engage in discussions and visits related to the main health and development challenges facing their country and the region of the Americas. In this phase, they also begin to define a country project that will be developed later in coordination with PAHO/WHO, government officials, and others.
Participants will also establish a community of practice related to their subject area that includes technical experts from PAHO/WHO as well as government, nongovernmental and private entities, international actors, LIHP colleagues, mentors and tutors, and others. The community of practice contributes to the conceptualization, development, and, where applicable, implementation of the country project.
Participants also receive training through PAHO's Virtual Campus for Public Health in subjects including universal health coverage, nutrition and food security, migration, border health, tensions and conflicts, health diplomacy, climate change, access to medicines and chronic diseases.
By the end of the program, participants will have increased their knowledge and skills in situation analysis, policy design and decision-making, negotiation and advocacy, project management and cooperation, generation and exchange of knowledge, and communication.
The LIHP seeks to contribute to the development of the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017 by strengthening the capacities of countries in the region to understand, act upon and positively influence the international determinants of health, to promote their national interests, and to achieve intersectoral health agreements in international environments, guided by the principle of greater global equity in health.
Since 2008, over 270 professionals from the Americas have participated in the LIHP, including professionals from ministries of health and other ministries, units of international relations and cooperation within these ministries, academia, PAHO/WHO country offices, other UN agencies, regional and international organizations, and NGOs.
To learn more about eligibility and application procedures, visit: https://bit.ly/1dIvQcJ
For more information, contact: INTLHLTH@paho.org
