[Ngo-admin] Consultancy service annoucement - Human Health

[Nguyen Thuy Nga]

Message from UNDP Vietnam Procurement Unit

Dear colleagues and friends,

The Vietnam Integrated National Program on Avian Influenza, Pandemic Preparedness and "One Health", 2011-2015 seeks an International Consultant on Expert on Human Health, Pandemic Preparedness and Response  - Appraisal of draft national sectoral plans and provision of written inputs on the human health and pandemic preparedness sections of the Vietnam Integrated National Program on Avian Influenza, Pandemic Preparedness and "One Health", 2011-2015

During the past decade, Vietnam has experienced successive significant threats to public health and economic growth from the international transmission of new strains of zoonotic viruses including SARS, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) and the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009. The Vietnam Integrated National Operational Program for Avian Influenza (OPI), 2006-2010 (the "Green Book"), has provided a framework for activities by national agencies and international partners with the overall objective of reducing the health risk to humans from avian influenza by controlling the disease at source in domestic poultry, by detecting and responding promptly to human cases, and by preparing for the medical consequences of a human pandemic. A mid-term review of the OPI was conducted in 2009 with 43 recommendations for the future period.

The selected international consultant will provide high level technical and policy inputs into the development of the human health and pandemic preparedness sections of the Vietnam Integrated National Program on Avian Influenza, Pandemic Preparedness and "One Health", 2011-2015, drawing on current international understanding and experiences.

Full solicitation documents can be obtained by visiting UNDP website at:

http://www.undp.org.vn/detail/get-involved/undp-opportunities/undp-opportunities-details/?contentId=3635&languageId=1

Interested candidates are invited to submit the most updated CV and financial offer to:

Email: le.tuyet.sinh at undp.org<mailto:le.tuyet.sinh at undp.org>
Procurement Unit, UNDP Viet Nam

Deadline for Submission: 05 October 2010, 05.00 p.m (Ha Noi time)

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