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Vacancy announcement for National Professional Officer
The WHO country office in Jordan is announcing the following position:
National Professional Officer (communicable diseases surveillance/emergency health officer)
Deadline 31 August 2016
Please note that a vacancy notice was just published on e-Recruitment for the below position at WHO Representative Office in Amman, Jordan. Kindly post on the Bulletin Board:
National Professional Officer (noncommunicable diseases and lifecourse)
Interested candidates are kindly requested and strongly encouraged to apply on-line to enable WHO store your profiles in a permanent database. Please visit WHO's e-recruitment website at: www.who.int/employment. The system provides instructions for on-line application procedures. You may also view and access this vacancy on WHO HQ’s intranet.
Deadline for applications: 12 September 2016
(Kindly note that VNFT538 published for the same post on 25 Aug 2016 has been cancelled and this VN542 is to replace it)
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The challenges of controlling diabetes as a refugee
Hammad and Sham. Photo credit: WHO/J Swan22 November 2015, Amman | Jordan — Hammad Faleh, 32, is a refugee from Dara’a, Syria. At Jordan Health Aid Society (JHAS) Al Madineh clinic in downtown Amman, he patiently waits with his 5-year-old daughter Sham (meaning ‘Damascus’), to receive insulin for his diabetes. Hammad has been a type-1 diabetic for over 14 years.
“It’s [diabetes] been something I’ve managed for almost half my life,” the former English teacher says, taking a seat in the waiting room and instructing Sham to draw while he speaks with us. “But since the war [in Syria] began, my condition has been difficult to control and this has made things very hard for me and my family,” he says.
Innovations in public health surveillance rolled out in Jordan
JORDAN | 18 May 2015 A national program of public health surveillance is being implemented in 309 sites across Jordan by the Ministry of Health, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) Jordan. The project was launched at national scale in April 2015 and more than 100 trainings are currently being held across Jordan to train public health officials and clinic staff in how to use the system.
The innovative project to collect, analyse and report disease surveillance information using mobile tools in real time follows a successful pilot program in Jordan between May to December 2014.
Now, every hospital, prison, mental health facility and more than 80% of primary care and comprehensive centres across Jordan will now have access to the enhanced disease surveillance service.
The project introduces case-based, integrated disease surveillance of mental health, non-communicable disease and communicable disease and uses innovative mobile technologies for reporting and management of information. Clinicians report case based information from within the consultation using mobile tablets, making information available in real-time for inform decision-making. Suspected notifiable diseases are alerted by SMS and Email within one hour of reporting to inform outbreak investigation and response at the appropriate level of decision-making and electronic barcodes are used to link laboratory results to case reports. The system also provides decision support to the clinician, including access to best practice prescribing, clinical algorithms and international classification of disease codes.
The project, which builds on existing national and international surveillance standards, guidelines and case definitions, was made possible through the support of the Government of Kuwait. This is the first time mobile tools have been applied to national public health surveillance.
