Abt Associates \u2013 The International Health Division is committed to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery around the world.\u00a0 Serving both the public and private sectors, our efforts include health policy research and evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management.\u00a0 Our impact is felt in policies that ensure healthcare access for women, children, and individuals with special needs, in strengthening health infrastructures, and HIV\/AIDS solutions.<\/p>\n
We are recruiting to fill the position below:<\/p>\n
Job Title: Chief of Party \u2013 VectorLink Under the supervision of the VCTO1 Technical Program Manager, based in Bethesda, MD (USA), the COP\/Medical Entomologist will provide leadership and management oversight to the PMI VectorLink Project in Nigeria. Preferred Skills \/ Prerequisites<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nReq Id<\/strong>: 53621
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\nAbt Associates, a major American business and government research, technical assistance, and consulting company, manages the USAID-funded Vector Control Task Order 1. Task Order 1 will support the U.S. President\u2019s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and USAID to plan and implement an integrated vector control approach with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria. Abt has implemented indoor residual spraying (IRS) for PMI since 2011, delivering high-quality IRS programs and gathering the most comprehensive vector control entomological data in the world. Under this contract, Abt will expand entomological monitoring to guide programs focused on malaria vector control and continue to assist PMI in reducing the burden of malaria through malaria vector control and capacity building in 22 African countries where malaria is endemic.<\/p>\n
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