Strategic Health Information Officer

The Strategic Health Information Officer strengthens Guinea-Bissau's capacity to generate, analyse and use health data for primary health care, universal health coverage and SDG monitoring. The role leads health-information governance, research coordination and evidence products, while supporting observatories, digital health and country-level decision-making.

• Strengthen country capacity for routine health-facility, vital-statistics, surveillance and survey data collection
• Analyse health data and statistics to identify trends and develop attribution and prediction models
• Produce health policy briefs, best-practice documentation and other evidence products for decision-makers
• Coordinate health research with INASA's Advisory Committee and research associations
• Advance health-observatory functions and harmonise digital-health work
• Strengthen governance and data collaboratives for health-information systems
• Generate institutional analytical products for SDG monitoring and WHO impact frameworks

• Degree in a health-related field with training in biostatistics, demography and/or epidemiology
• Postgraduate degree or qualifications in a public health field
• At least five years' practical experience generating and using strategic health information, health data or statistics
• Expert knowledge of Portuguese or French

• Doctorate in health statistics and information systems
• Training or specialization in monitoring and evaluation systems or health informatics
• Experience across multiple countries in strategic health information
• Experience in policy formulation, quality management or strategic planning

• Health Information Systems
• Data Analysis
• Statistical Analysis
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Health Research
• Health Policy
• Capacity Building
• Resource Mobilisation

• Health Observatory
• Scorecards
• Statistics Atlas