Goal

This consultancy aims to develop a decision support tool in the Malaria Information System (MIS) in the form of a mathematical model to predict malaria case situation with current practice of malaria national program. Furthermore, the tool will be used for information to guide malaria national program to make decisions, strategy or interventions in order to reach the malaria elimination goal. 

Scope of Work

The selected consultant will work closely with MIS team for building the tools in MIS and guide MIS team to manage and update tool by themselves after tool is already developed and deployed.

The malaria model should be developed in R or a similar high-level language. The model should be a compartmental transmission-dynamic model. It should include all key malaria interventions relevant to the Cambodian context. Ideally it will have a streamlined process for fitting to routine surveillance and intervention coverage data. It will have the capability to project the impact of multiple future intervention scenarios to be selected by the user. The model code will be structured to import data in the format produced by MIS and export output in a format compatible with MIS. Once developed the consultant will provide necessary information to the CNM technical team to set up the pathway for importation of data into the model and the exportation of model output to MIS.

Reporting:

The Consultant shall be expected to submit activity reports in line with the set deliverables and these reports shall be submitted for review and acceptance by the National Malaria Program before any payment is made. 

LANGUAGES

English: Fluent (Speaking & Writing); Khmer: Working (optional)

Period: The work for 2022 is to be concluded within 12 weeks from the signing of 15th August, 2022 with a total of 30 working days between 15th August 2022 to 23th Sep 2022. The work for 2023, a further 15 working days is to be concluded by 4th August 2023.