Job Description
Analyst (Independent Contractor)
Location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Duration: 3 months – February to April 2025
Organisation Overview:
The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.
CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non- communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.
At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org
CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.
Program Overview:
To achieve global goals for the treatment of HIV, most high-prevalence countries are experimenting with and scaling up alternative service delivery approaches, or “differentiated models of care.” A handful of efforts have been formally described and evaluated in the literature; many others are being implemented formally or informally under routine care, without a research or evaluation goal. For most countries, there is little evidence on the “big picture” — the proportion of clinics offering alternative models, eligibility criteria and the proportion of patients considered eligible, the number of patients actually participating, health outcomes such as viral suppression, empirical resource utilization compared to traditional care, variations among the models, duration of patient participation, fidelity to model guidelines, effects on clinic efficiency, and sustainability without external donor support.
CHAI in partnership with the University of Witwatersrand, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) and Boston University, School of Public Health and with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, under the guidance of the Malawi Ministry of Health (MOH) has been working on the Alternative Models of ART Delivery: Optimizing the Benefits (AMBIT) study since 2019. AMBIT aims to evaluate the coverage, uptake, outcomes, benefits, and costs of Differentiated Service Delivery models (DSD) for HIV treatment. In Malawi, Zambia, and South Africa, AMBIT synthesizes existing data at the patient, facility, partner, and national levels. Additionally, the study conducts primary data collection to help fill in gaps in the existing knowledge base.
Position Overview
CHAI is recruiting for an Independent Contractor to support the AMBIT Study as an Analyst. The Analyst will support data cleaning and analysis of HIV/AIDS patient level data extracted from the MOH’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR), data cleaning and analysis of quantitative data collected from providers and recipients of care, data entry, development of results dissemination materials, coordinating results dissemination meetings, and study closure activities including, but not limited to reconciliation of consent forms and filing them away accordingly, and preparation of study closure reports for Institutional Review Boards. The Analysis will report to the AMBIT Program Manager.
Travel for this position can be expected at 30% of the time, mostly to Blantyre and Chiradzulu districts.
Responsibilities
- Support with data collection from ministry of health’s electronic data custodian and from health facilities
- Enter data onto study database using surveyCTO
- Ensure that the study databases are always functional
- Conduct data cleaning, and statistical analyses using STATA
- Coordinate results dissemination meetings
- Support with preparation of results dissemination materials
- Perform any other duties assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field such as Statistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Economics, Demography, etc. with at least 2 years of experience in a demanding, results-driven research environment
- Familiarity and experience with the Malawi HIV/AIDS landscape
- Meticulous attention to detail with strong quantitative analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to be effective in high-pressure situations and work in a fast-paced environment with limited structural support
- High level of proficiency in STATA, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Experience with quantitative data collection from health workers and recipients of care
- Ability to collaborate and operate as part of a multi-cultural team
Advantages
- Familiarity with the Malawi Electronic Medical Records patient level data and the Laboratory
Information Management System’s (LIMS) viral load data - Experience working with electronic data collection tools (e.g. ODK and Survey CTO)
Applications should be sent to: recruitmentmalawi@clintonhealthaccess.org. The email subject must be “AMBIT Analyst Application”
Closing date: Friday 17th January 2025.