Senior Advisor for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

The Senior Advisor for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (Senior Advisor) will provide technical assistance to the GH/HIDN/MCH Division and to USAID field Missions on programmatic approaches to increase the uptake, use, and impact of key interventions to reduce maternal and child mortality. The focus of this position will be child health, working closely with the existing child health team in the Division, the MCH Element co-Head for Child Survival, and the MCH Division Chief, and complementing the work of existing teams in maternal and newborn health, immunization, and environmental health.

Children’s Environmental Health Conference

The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (MACCHE) is hosting its 2009 Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD. This year the conference will be at the Mt. Washington Conference Center – Baltimore, MD on September 11, 2009. For further updates please visit the conference site.

MCH Research in Texas

Research Specialist V position in the Office of Program Decision Support in the Division of Family and Community Health Services, Texas Department of State Health Services. This position is located in Austin, TX. Please feel free to forward broadly or to specific candidates. Applications must be made through our online HR system. The closing date is 04/27/09.

Newborn Hearing Screening contract

ASTHO’s Birth Defects and Disabilities Project is looking for a contractor to research and develop a case study of the Newborn Hearing Screening system that will serve as a practical reference for guiding future inter-agency collaborations. The request for quotes is attached and can also be found at:
http://www.astho.org/pubs/RFQ-NewbornHearingScreening031009.pdf

Family Health International – Mozambique

Responsible for providing technical leadership and oversight to FHI’s HIV/AIDS technical team that implements the Antiretroviral Treatment (ART), Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), Counseling and Testing for HIV (CT), palliative and home-based care (HBC) for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and Strategic Behavior Communications (SBC) components of the HIV/AIDS Care and Support Program.

Internship in New Delhi

Project Concern International (PCI) is an international non-government, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting community health, human rights, and integrated development in 13 countries worldwide. PCI’s primary interventions areas are maternal and child health; disease prevention, with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support; food aid and food security including livelihoods and agribusiness; humanitarian assistance; water and sanitation; and building the capacity of local organizations and networks….

Internships with Save the Children

Attached please find the Internship Application Packet for 2009 opportunities with the Department of Health and Nutrition at Save the Children. As in the past we have a good mix of program focus and location, and a range of experiences. Throughout the year, we receive many inquiries for internships and we seek to match well-qualified students with meaningful action research projects to meet the needs of at least four stakeholders: the student, the project, the student’s institution, and the international health community at large. In other words, we expect that able students, carefully mentored by Save the Children technical staff and the student’s faculty, will advance the state-of-the-art and document findings for various audiences.

PEPFAR Strategic Information Liaison/Deputy Coordinator

The PEFFAR Strategic Information Liaison/Deputy Coordinator will assist the PEPFAR-Namibia Country Coordinator and team Namibia in managing critical and time-sensitive communications and work products between and among the various USG departments and agencies involved in the Emergency Plan. S/he will liaise routinely with the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator in the US State Department (particularly the Namibia Interagency Core Team and Country Lead), with designated USG/Windhoek counterparts, and with representatives of the USG PEPFAR Interagency Country Team. In the absence of the Country Coordinator, S/he will serve as the Acting Country Coordinator.

MCHB internship – Needs Assessment Survey Coordinator

Summer internship with Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program in Santa Fe:

http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/mchirc/gsip/catalog/2009/newmexico.html

Louisiana Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health

The Louisiana Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health is
seeking a Licensed Mental Health Professional (LMHP) to work in St. John the Baptist School System, Minimum of Master’s Degree, with three or more years of experience, preferably in Children’s Mental Health.