Tuberculosis (Tb) Technical Advisor

**Location**: Rio de Janeiro, Dakar, Nairobi, Brussels, or Kuala Lumpur

**Contract**: Full time (100%)

**Duration**: Indefinite

**Starting date**: As soon as possible

**Deadline to apply: July 07, 2025**

**Compensation and benefits**:MSF practice is to offer the C&B package current in the MSF entity establishing the contract.

**This job description may evolve according to the finalized MSF ACCESS Strategic Plan, although its main parameters (scope, area of expertise) should not be essentially altered. Until that key stage, the incumbent is expected to demonstrate a degree of flexibility in the performance of their work.**

**I. MSF INTERNATIONAL**

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

MSF International is the legal entity that binds MSF’s 24 sections, 27 associations and 18 branch offices together. Registered in Switzerland, MSF International provides coordination, information and support to the MSF Movement, as well as implements international projects and initiatives as requested.

**MSF Access**

Médecins Sans Frontières works tirelessly to improve the accessibility, availability, affordability, appropriateness and quality of products for health care for the populations it assists and their communities. While this is a collective effort across the organisation, the MSF Access team plays a central role as it identifies and implements a priority selection of access projects, offers expert support for access activities elsewhere in MSF, and brings together information and analysis relevant to MSF’s access work. The MSF Access team, overseen by an Executive Board, is based around five regional hubs: Kuala Lumpur, Nairobi, Brussels, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro.

**II. POSITION BACKGROUND**

Access to Products for Healthcare (APH) is critical to MSF's Social Mission. It refers to the accessibility, availability, affordability, appropriateness, and quality of products for healthcare for the populations MSF assists and their communities. MSF has been engaged in a wide variety of ways to improve APH in past decades.

In 2023, the MSF International Board approved the set-up of a new organisational model for access to products for healthcare work in MSF. A central part of this model is the creation of a new access team that supports the APH agenda and is overseen by an Executive Board.

Access to TB treatment, diagnostics and prevention is one of the priorities for MSF in 2025 and in the new strategic plan circle of 2026-2031. The TB Technical Advisor works on technical and strategic issues pertaining to R&D and access for treatment, diagnostics, and prevention for drug sensitive and drug resistant TB, latent TB, pediatric TB and preventive treatment.

**III. PLACE IN THE ORGANIZATION**

The TB Technical Advisor works in the Analysis Department of MSF’s new Access Team, reporting to the Head of Analysis. S/he works in a multidisciplinary team of the Analysis Department consisting of experts on medical, pharmaceutical, legal and policy issues related to access to health products and technologies.

The NCDs Technical Advisor maintains a close working relationship with MSF technical working groups, medical referents and other technical experts at MSF projects and headquarters.

The TB medical work is done in collaboration with other key internal counterparts of MSF including the TB Working Group, MSF TACTIC Initiative, operational medical references, TB pharmacists in International Office (IO). The medical advisor plays a key technical and advisory role in strategy development, reporting and representation.

**IV. OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION**
- Lead and coordinate the development of strategy, plans and activities for the TB dossier of MSF’s new access team, addressing access barriers on TB.
- Lead research, analysis, and horizon scanning on the TB dossier, priority objectives and domains.
- Provide technical and strategic advice on new product-related areas and issues that require research, analysis and strategic development within the domain of TB, including other emerging priorities identified by operations or technical working groups.
- Support and provide input into the development and implementation of advocacy strategies in relation to priority TB products.

**V. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES**
- **_ Lead research, analysis, and horizon scanning on the overall TB dossier, priority objectives and domains_**
- Support the Head of Analysis in developing and managing the overall strategy and plan for TB related research and analysis of annual plans and the Strategic Plan 2026-2031.
- Reviewing, collating and synthesizing medical literature, research and development and global policy guidance related to TB.
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