The West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) Health Literacy Leadership Programme 2021
Application Deadline: 1st February, 2021.
The West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) is a non-state regional health development organization (RHDO) for strengthening public health, enabling environment, improving public health systems and developing the professional capacity to ensure the performance of public health functions.
To achieve its mission, the Institute is innovation-driven, working to support governments and partnering to create dynamic, resilient, equitable, integrated, decentralized and participatory health systems within a just and empowered society, in the spirit of universal access to health with primary health care as the cornerstone. The institute is also the custodian of the Regional Charter of Public Health, which is used to develop strategic approaches for public health functions and human capacity development in the West Africa Region.
The key pillars of the Institute’s interventions are advocacy, policy, research, education/ training, standards, competency, certifications and public health programme implementation.
The Health Literacy Leadership Programme (HLLP) was designed by the Institute to improve health information, communication and promotion, in order to equip young people with advocacy and leadership skills to position them as change agents.
Aims and Objectives
1. To strengthen population health literacy effort by increasing the critical numbers of young health literacy advocates through the Health Literacy Leadership Course (HLLC)
2. To equip young leaders with the capacity to filter and articulate strategic health information.
3. To develop the legislative advocacy capacity of the participants
4. To build a critical mass and network of young advocates and health literacy champions
5. To catalyze advocacy engagements on critical public health issues, especially through new media.
Tasks
1. Participants are expected to be engaged in an intensive two-day virtual teaching for a period of 3 months.
2. Participants are expected to visit their immediate communities to make research on various health issues and challenges.
3. Participants must submit reports of research and observations from their communities.
Eligibility
1. A master’s degree in any discipline and a minimum of two years’ post-graduation. Note: Applicants should not be above 30 years at the time of application.
2. Good command of English; the participants should possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
3. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team.
4. Adept at using major social media platforms – Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and participate effectively in tweet chats, interviews, articles, campaigns and meetings.
Method of Application
Interested applicants should send their expression of interest which should address how their background relates to advocacy experience, following the eligibility criteria mentioned. The application should include their Curriculum Vitae. These documents should be submitted to hllp@publichealth-edu.org
To learn more, please visit publichealth-edu.org