Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
This activity will produce a series of deliverables and outputs, including:
An assessment of the options available for evaluating the success/impact of global health R&D investments, including the anticipated level of effort required to collect particular pieces of data or conduct certain analyses.
• An estimation of each type of data/analysis and the level of confidence a funder might have in making certain assertions on their return on global health R&D investments.
• A comprehensive overview of products approved for neglected and emerging infectious diseases since 1999, including key attributes and organizations involved in their development.
• A mapping of the available evidence for each approved product against agreed indicators for research and health program outputs, and policy, health and economic outcomes.
• An up-to-date database of the current R&D pipeline for neglected and emerging infectious diseases, including key attributes and organizations involved in development, mapped against consensus R&D priorities.
• A report demonstrating the impact of the last two decades of investment in global health R&D, based on the collated evidence and global funding data.
• A validated framework and methodology that could be used for demonstrating the return on investment in global health R&D – including in areas not covered by this activity – and for ongoing monitoring of the health of the R&D ecosystem.

Consultants Roles and Responsibilities
• The consultant will conduct a systematic literature review by undertaking a thorough desk research of all literature on health products launched in Africa from 2000.
• The purpose of this review is to identify all academic papers and grey literature from key non-academic stakeholders published since 2000 that potentially contain evidence of health or economic impact across the set of approved products.
• Provide a high-level summary of each paper’s findings. This will include both positive and negative findings.
• Deliver a detailed summary focusing on findings in relation to health impact.
• Conduct desk research of various extrapolation or modelling methodologies from individual impact estimates of valuation for different areas/products/disease that have been used in the past studies to identify best practice and strategies for this process of extrapolation.
• Using representative sample of nations, diseases and product types, the consultant will extrapolate costs, health, and economic benefit for certain health products.
• Provide input and research into other elements of the overall impact modelling – principally health impact extrapolation and flow-on economic impact.

Qualifications and Experience
• PhD or Masters degree in Health Economics, Economics or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in economics analysis.
• Knowledge of methods utilized in economic valuations of products.
• Knowledge in economic modelling at micro and macro level.
• Experience in conducting systematic literature review.
• Excellent communication (written and spoken) and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational and program management skills.
• Ability to take initiative and work both independently and in teams.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure

If you meet the criteria above and are interested in this opportunity, please send your cover letter, technical and financial proposals to consultancies@aphrc.org  and copy procurement@aphrc.org by September 15, 2022 with the subject “Tittle”.
APHRC will contact the shortlisted candidates only.
Cover letters should be addressed to:
The Human Resources Officer African Population and Health Research Center, Inc APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru P. O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi

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