Program Officer, Public Health Program, Open Society Institute–New York
The Open Society Public Health Program (PHP) aims to build societies committed to inclusion, human rights, and justice, in which health-related laws, policies, and practices are evidence-based and reflect these values. PHP works to advance the health and human rights of marginalized people by building the capacity of civil society leaders and organizations, and by advocating for greater accountability and transparency in health policy and practice. PHP engages in five core strategies to advance its mission and goals: grant making, capacity building, advocacy, strategic convening, and mobilizing and leveraging funding.
The Open Society Foundations seek a full-time Program Officer in its New York office to work with the Public Health Program’s Access to Essential Medicines Initiative.
The overall goal of the Access to Essential Medicines Initiative (AEMI) is to promote increased access to essential medicines in developing countries and countries in post-socialist transition, especially for poor and marginalized populations for whom this access is likely to be elusive. The AEMI pursues this goal by developing civil society capacity for advocacy and leadership on access to medicines at national, regional, and international level, with a specific focus on global South/Eastern European advocates. The AEMI’s strategy is guided by two main principles:
i) Essential medicines are social goods; it is a public responsibility to ensure their development, availability and accessibility for those who need them
ii) More transparency and accountability in policy making and practices are essential to ensure the development, availability and accessibility of essential medicines.
Find out more at the Open Society Institute website.
