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Internship - Surveillance, Monitoring and Reporting

WHOGeneva, Switzerland
Category | Grade:InternDeadline:21 Aug 2026Job ID:2603014Posted on:31 Jul 2026
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Overview

Support WHO noncommunicable-disease surveillance by coordinating country capacity survey submissions, tracking and validating responses, cleaning and analysing data, reviewing national policy evidence, maintaining repositories and producing briefs, reports and advocacy materials from global findings.

Department: Surveillance, Monitoring and Reporting Team

Languages

Required: English

Desired: Another UN language

Minimum Experience

No minimum listed

Estimated Salary

Not available

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and track country capacity survey submissions
  • Validate country responses against supporting documents
  • Clean, analyse and quality-check NCD surveillance data
  • Prepare policy briefs, reports and presentations
  • Organize review meetings and document follow-up actions
  • Maintain national policy repositories and shared tracking systems

Requirements

  • At least three years of relevant university study and current enrolment or recent graduation under WHO internship rules
  • Study in public health, epidemiology, data science or a related field
  • Expert knowledge of English
  • Experience in research, document review, data collection or report drafting

Skills

Health surveillanceData validationQuantitative analysisPolicy reviewTechnical writingKnowledge management

Tools

Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointRStataDocument repositories

Additional info

  • WHO internship provides a location-dependent living allowance rather than salary