Summary of Primary Duties
The primary responsibilities of the Digital Health Policy Advisor (DHPA) are to support MSPP capacities around overall management of HIS landscape and health policies. The overall responsibilities include:
1. Review existing Health Policy and draft National Digital Health Policy for Haiti.
2. Define data standards and data exchange protocols.
3. Develop guidelines for data privacy, data security, and interoperability.
4. Train MSPP staff on digital health policy and roll-out strategy.
5. Provide implementation support for the national digital health policy.
6. Disseminate, publish, and implement MSPP-approved Digital Health standards.
7. Assist the development of Digital Health Policy.
8. Assist to enhance usability of the system across data entry, data quality, and data use.

The DHPA, in consultation with the Haiti HIS Senior management Team will work with personnel identified by MSPP as digital health policy-dedicated to:
1. Perform intensive policy analysis, policy development, and investigations of best practices; and
2. Draft the National Digital Health Policy and Guidelines (NDHPG) to include IT and mobile enablement frameworks leveraging internationally established standards such as the World Health Organization (WHO) Digital Health Guidelines, WHO Health Metrics Network (HNM) Framework, and PAHO Digital Health policy framework. The drafted National Digital Health policy will cover:
1. Data standards to be followed across health systems;
2. Data sharing protocols;
3. Data privacy guidelines;
4. Interoperability guidelines that define standards for information exchange among health systems;
5. The recommended Unique Patient Identifier for the health sector, such as Master Patient Index, Block Chain, Machine Learning, AI, etc.;
6. A legal and regulatory framework that supports data security and privacy/confidentiality, information sharing, and regular and timely reporting of health information; and
7. An implementation roadmap.
Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:
 Support MSPP to initiate dialogue, advocacy, and consensus building among key stakeholders (including implementing partners, nongovernmental organizations, and donors).
 Assist the HIS M&E Officer in enhancing the robust Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL) plan to monitor implementation of NDHPG.

 A wealth of experience in digital health, and interoperability/data standards
 Experience in information and communications technology (ICT) policies and standards is a plus
 Knowledge of DHIS2 platform and mobile tools is a plus.