
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organization that provides aid in more than 70 countries to populations in distress, to victims of natural or manmade disasters and to victims of armed conflicts, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation.
MSF Luxembourg is a historical partner section of the MSF movement created in 1986. With 35 staff members, the section’s team works to raise awareness on humanitarian issues among Luxembourg’s population, raise funds needed to finance humanitarian interventions, supports MSF volunteers who go into the field and carry out operational research projects directly linked to health programs to help improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
Nine MSF partner sections (Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, South Africa and Sweden) and the Lebanon Branch Office, make up the Operational Centre Brussels (OCB).
The OCB Medical Department is a network of units, the Brussels Medical Unit (BRUMED in Brussels), the Southern African Medical Unit (SAMU) in Cape Town, the Luxembourg Operational Research unit (LuxOR) in Luxembourg, the Middle East Medical Unit (MEMU) in Beirut and the Brazilian Medical Unit (BRAMU) in Latin America.
The LuxOR was founded in 2009 and is a part of the MSF-OCB Medical Department. Operational Research helps MSF take an in-depth look at its programs and operations, evaluates what is working well, and shows what can and needs to be improved. Since 2019, LuxOR took up the support and a coordination role for the different epidemiology advisors and field epidemiologists as well, providing technical support, guidance and advice to the field-epidemiologists in the different OCB missions.
The OCB Abidjan Medical hub is currently being established in Ivory Coast. The Epi advisor position advertised here will be functionally embedded in the medical team of Operational Cell 2 (i.e., cell overseeing operations in Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Benin), but physically hosted in the newly established Abidjan Medical Hub. The position will be working in close collaboration with the other medical positions hosted in this hub (currently Environmental Health and Health Promotion).
More information can be found on the LuxOR website
The Epi Advisor will be embedded in the medical team of operational cell 2 and will provide direct support to missions and projects, as well as direct day-to-day support to field-epidemiologists embedded inside the missions. The Epi advisor is expected to dedicate 80% of their time directly to operational support and work 20% on transversal subjects within the epidemiology portfolio.
In more detail, the epidemiology advisor will contribute to the following aspects:
Cell support
Medical department
Work closely with the Operational Research advisors in the LuxOR, SAMU and other OCB researchers on: