The Stop TB
Partnership launched the Digital Health Technology (DHT) Hub in Nove...
The Stop TB
Partnership launched the Digital Health Technology (DHT) Hub in November 2020
to catalyze the global adoption of evidence-based digital health technologies
and ensure that they can be utilized to the fullest of their potential for the
advancement of the Global Plan to End TB by 2030. The DHT hub is built on years
of experience in facilitating the introduction and implementation of TB digital
health technologies, and will build upon the Stop TB Partnership’s role as a
convener of countries, technical partners, technology developers and donors to
further advance the development and implementation of tools.
The DHT Hub will
coordinate and build upon the various digital health technology initiatives and
projects within the Stop TB Partnership, and initially focus on the following
key areas:
- Build and expand the knowledge and
experience base of the appropriate use of digital health technologies
- Provide
technical support to country programme, implementing partners, and civil
society and communities to implement and scale proven and evidence-based
digital health technologies for the TB response
- Lay
the necessary foundation in TB affected countries for the optimal scale-up,
equitable access, and appropriate use of digital health technologies
- Catalyze the rapid roll-out of
digital health technologies by providing fit-for-purpose capital and technical
support to small- and medium-enterprises and start-ups, particularly from TB
affected countries
The initial
technological areas of focus of the DHT Hub include but are not limited to the
following classes of technologies:
- Diagnostics connectivity solutions;
- Artificial intelligence-powered
computer-aided detection software for use with chest X-ray;
- Ultraportable digital x-ray systems;
- Digital patient support technologies;
- Bioinformatics for next generation
sequencing analyses;
- Digital monitoring tools for the community
(e.g. OneImpact);
- Diagnostics network mapping and analyses.
One
of the initiatives of the DHT Hub is the New Tools Project under implementation
by the Stop TB Partnership, which will provide multiple new digital health
technologies to high TB burden countries. The Project will entail development
of global practical guidance and tools to facilitate project implementation in
countries as well as country-specific support for adoption, customization and
effective use of products.
To
support the work of the DHT Hub, the Stop TB Partnership is aiming to build a roster
of consultants with technical expertise in specific digital health technologies
to serve as a resource for country adoption and implementation of products and
for the development of technology landscapes and global-level and country-level
implementation guidance and tools.
The specific
responsibilities of the Digital Health Specialist Consultant include:
- Leads the
development of global-level implementation guidance, training curricula and
other implementation tools for specific classes of digital health technologies,
coordinating inputs from technology developers, early implementers, and Stop TB
teams
- Conducts
analyses of product landscapes and provides recommendations and evaluations of
performance for specific classes of digital health technologies, providing
up-to-date information on product operational and performance characteristics
and specifications
- Provides
technical assistance to Stop TB,
countries and technical partners in adoption and implementation of digital
health technologies including product-specific technologies, including:
- in-country and remote technical assistance and trainings
- development of country-specific guidance
documents, operational plans, tools and training curricula
- analysis of datasets produced by various
technologies and development of reports or dashboards, as required
The consultant
will be required to travel 1/3 of the time (following COVID19 guidance on
international travel).
Monitoring and process controls
Stop TB will
engage consultants from the roster when requests are received for technical
assistance from countries on a specific digital health technology or when Stop
TB is embarking on activities to develop a digital health technology-specific
implementation guide, training curricula or related tool, to analyze product
landscapes or to evaluate performance of products.
A consultant will be
selected based on expertise and experience around use of a specific technology and
engagement with countries, and for travel, may be selected based on
geographical proximity.
Possible deliverables from consultancies may include:
for technical assistance, starting implementation of a product in a country, a
country implementation monitoring report, a country implementation plan, or an
analyzed data set; product landscapes or evaluations; implementation guides,
training curricula or related tools.
Compensation
The consultant will be engaged on a retainer
contract based on a daily fee and for a limited amount of days within a defined
period of time.