Associate

Overview: The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low\-and middle\-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high\-quality health systems. CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life\-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID\-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non\-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally. At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. WJCF is an Indian not\-for\-profit entity, registered under Section 8 of the Indian Companies Act 2013, and has an affiliation agreement with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Our mission is to save lives and improve health outcomes in the country by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health systems. WJCF has partnered with the Ministry of Health \& Family Welfare and state health departments since 2007, providing technical and operational support across key health priorities, including infectious diseases (COVID\-19, hepatitis, HIV, TB, vector\-borne diseases), non\-communicable diseases (cervical cancer, diabetes, sickle cell disease), maternal and child health (anaemia, immunisation, diarrhoea, pneumonia), sexual and reproductive health, health insurance and digital health (AB PM\-JAY, ABDM), oxygen and hypoxemia management, safe drinking water, and climate and health. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org **Program Overview** The World Health Organization estimated that 10\.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2022 and \~1\.3 million succumbed to it. India accounted for the most people suffering from the disease, with 27% of the cases and 26% of mortality. The National TB Elimination Program (NTEP), headed by the Central TB Division (CTD), MoHFW, is an expansive public health program with the ambitious goal of eliminating TB in line with the mandate of the Sustainable Development Goals. WJCF has been supporting the CTD and state health departments of more than 15 states in the mission to eliminate TB. WJCF’s TB program has been operational since 2012, and its interventions address several program areas, including preventive therapies, case detection, access to diagnostics, engagement of the private sector, and more. It also lends technical support to Governments across a range of themes\- strategic planning, data analytics, monitoring and evaluation, patient management and delivery of services. WJCF’s current portfolio of work spans support includes an evaluation of the TB drugs demand and supply dynamics, a landscape assessment for the next generation of diagnostic methods, a high\-powered multi\-disciplinary team translating programmatic information into action, and multiple large\-scale interventions to determine the best methods for detecting hidden TB in the community. **Project Background** India’s rapidly urbanising cities — home to over 500 million people and growing — face a recurring burden of vector\-borne and water\-borne diseases, with dengue, malaria, cholera, and typhoid remaining endemic in informal settlements where drainage, waste management, and water supply remain inadequate. Indian cities exemplify these pressures, with seasonal disease surges recurring each year across wards and peri\-urban areas. Despite sustained investment in surveillance infrastructure through the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP), and the Metropolitan Surveillance Unit (MSU) network, a persistent gap remains between data collection and public health action. Peri\-urban settlements straddling municipal and district boundaries frequently fall outside the active surveillance catchment of both, and when outbreaks emerge, response teams act without a shared, evidence\-based picture of where risk is concentrated. To address this, WJCF is implementing a 10\-month Health Commitment Grant titled "Strengthening the Urban Ecosystem Against Future Disease Threats" under the Tuberculosis Implementation Framework Agreement (TIFA), funded by JSI Research and Training Institute and anchored by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), across five high\-risk cities including Ahmedabad. The project converts fragmented environmental, epidemiological, and administrative data into spatially indexed intelligence that ward officers, MSU epidemiologists, and District Surveillance Unit (DSU) teams can directly act on. In Ahmedabad, across three priority wards, this means a Ward\-Level Risk Atlas, an early warning dashboard connecting surveillance data systems with laboratory and supply chain data, targeted upskilling with measurable impact on reporting compliance, and commodity gap mapping against the 72\-hour outbreak response minimum, all submitted to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and NCDC as a Surveillance\-to\-Action blueprint designed for replication. **Position Summary** The Associate is the operational backbone of the projects. While the field teams own the technical work and government engagement, the Associate ensures that both projects are moving, milestones are being met, deliverables are completed and submitted on schedule. The Associate maintains live trackers, owns the donor report calendar, coordinates cross\-team reviews, and flags risks early. The role also works directly with the Surveillance Analyst and the TPT Analyst, problem solving, structuring data outputs, cleaning programme trackers, preparing milestone evidence packages, and synthesising raw programme data into reporting narratives. The Associate is the primary administrative and reporting interface…