Vital Strategies is a US-based international public health organization working in more than 70 countries to strengthen public health systems and address leading causes of morbidity and mortality.
Resolve to Save Lives is an initiative of Vital Strategies with a mission to prevent 100 million deaths from heart disease and to make the world safer from epidemics. Since September 2017, the Resolve to Save Lives Cardiovascular Health and Prevent Epidemics teams have been working closely with governments, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, academic and other partners in a number of low- and middle-income countries to strengthen national capacity to prevent, detect and respond to epidemic threats and improve cardiovascular health. For more information about us, visit: https://www.resolvetosavelives.org/ and https://linkscommunity.org/.
In Ethiopia, the Resolve to Save Lives cardiovascular health team recently started a phased implementation of a hypertension control project that, once scaled, will comprise 62 health centers and 10 primary hospitals across seven regions. This project collaborates with the World Health Organization Country Office and the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH). In the interest of improving data quality and enhancing program monitoring, Resolve to Save Lives is planning deployment of Simple, a mobile smartphone application by which health workers can quickly and easily register and manage hypertension patients. Simple also includes a web-based dashboard for officials and health system managers to monitor hypertension control across facilities and regions.
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The software engineer will be responsible for providing technical support to the new initiative of Simple app implementation and interoperability with the DHIS2 programs. She/he will be seconded to the Federal Ministry of Health to support the effective implementation of Simple App in all Resolve to Save Lives catchment areas and the design of the interoperability of DHIS2. This role is a 12-month consultancy.
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