International Consultant- Development of training course on integrating environmental health into One Health for central Asia

The consultant will design a policy- and practice-oriented training course to strengthen the integration of environmental health into One Health approaches in Central Asia. The course aims to support national capacity across human health, agriculture, and environment sectors focusing on governance, risk assessment, surveillance, prevention, and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Review relevant WHO/Europe and WHO global reference materials on One Health and Environmental Health
• Identify the learning needs of the intended audience and tailor the course to policymakers and technical staff from the human, agriculture and environment sectors
• Develop a coherent course structure that clearly shows the contribution of environmental health to One Health practice
• Ensure the course includes relevant environmental drivers, pathways, governance arrangements, surveillance considerations, prevention approaches and implementation priorities
• Incorporate Central Asia-specific considerations and examples where appropriate
• Propose suitable adult-learning methods, exercises and expected outputs for each module
• Draft a final course package in a WHO style suitable for technical and policy audiences
• Deliver a series of deliverables including inception note, detailed course outline, draft module descriptions, presentation slides, facilitator notes, final course outline, reference list, and final revised course package

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in public health, environmental health, veterinary public health, epidemiology, ecology, health policy or a related field
• At least 7 years of experience in One Health, environmental health, or multisectoral public health capacity building
• Demonstrated experience in developing training or capacity-building materials for policymakers and technical audiences
• Experience in integrating environment, climate change, nature and biodiversity into One Health in capacity building or policy design (desirable)
• Experience in designing multi-sectoral policies (desirable)
• Skills in instructional design and development of technical training materials, including learning objectives, presentations and facilitator guidance
• Knowledge of environmental health and/or One Health challenges in Central Asia
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Expert knowledge of English
• Knowledge of Russian and/or another language relevant to Central Asia (desirable)

Skills

• One Health
• Environmental Health
• Public Health Capacity Building
• Training Material Development
• Instructional Design
• Policy Design
• Multisectoral Public Health
• Environmental Health Challenges Central Asia
• MS PowerPoint
• Epidemiology
• Health Policy
• Veterinary Public Health
• Ecology

Languages

English