- Hospital Mortality System (HMS) Management: Manage and oversee HMS, ensuring accurate, complete, and continuous data entry and reporting from approximately 150 governmental and private hospitals across Lebanon.
- Daily Follow-up: Conduct daily follow-up with hospital focal points to ensure correct entry, verification of ICD-10 codes, modes of death, and professional causes of death.
- Monitoring Epidemics and Emergencies: Monitor and follow up on emerging epidemics or pandemics (e.g., COVID-19, cholera, war-related deaths), ensuring accurate coding and reporting.
- Mortality Data Validation and Analysis: Validate, extract, and analyze maternal, neonatal, infant, and specialized mortality data, including low birthweight, drowning, hip fracture, vaccine demographics, unsafe abortion, air pollution-related mortality, HIV/TB, and antimicrobial resistance indicators.
- Integration of Palliative Care Organizations data: Integrate palliative care organizations into HMS to capture community deaths and ensure consistency with hospital records while ensuring no duplicates are there.
- Hospital Scorecards and Dashboards: Prepare hospital scorecards and dashboards, monitoring key indicators such as completeness of data, quality of causes of death, high- and very-high-impact garbage codes, and availability of national IDs.
- Follow-up on Training Implementation: Conduct follow-up with hospitals that attended HMS trainings to ensure correct system use, proper dashboard navigation, and full understanding of system functionality.
- Coordination with Qadaa Offices: Coordinate continuously with Qadaa offices to validate and ensure completeness of births and deaths data.
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Maintain and update SOPs for HMS and related programs, including preparation of SOPs for new or updated programs.
- Training Preparation: Plan and prepare annual training objectives, content outlines, and materials for hospital trainings.
- Capacity-Building Activities: Conduct hospital trainings and other capacity-building activities, manage attendance, draft feedback and evaluation reports, and follow up on training implementation.
- MoPH Website Updates: Extract, validate, and update mortality and health indicators for Ministry website publication.
- Annual meetings: Prepare and conduct meetings with hospitals for year-end data closure, dashboard refreshers, system updates, and reinforcement of data quality standards.
- IRIS and ANACoD System Analysis: Conduct yearly extraction and analysis of underlying causes of death using the IRIS system and ANACoD application.
- Population Data Preparation: Prepare annual population datasets by integrating Ministry of Interior data with hospital mortality data.
- Cancer Data Coordination: Follow up cancer incidence and mortality data in coordination with the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit (ESU) and other relevant departments.
- Ministry Meetings and Coordination: Attend Ministry meetings related to HMS, coordinate with external partners, and support interdepartmental collaboration.
- Academic and Research Data Requests: Extract approved datasets for academic and research purposes following authorization from the Minister’s Office.
- Interdepartmental Data Validation: Conduct continuous follow-up and coordination with relevant Ministry departments, including the Billing Department (قسم الفوترة), to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of records.
- Annual Statistical Bulletins and Reports: Prepare annual statistical bulletins, tables, datasets, and visualizations for reporting on mortality and health indicators.
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Coordination: Extract, validate, and prepare SDG-related indicators and analytical presentations for national and international reporting.
- Data Backup and Security: Ensure regular backup of HMS data to maintain data security, integrity, and availability.
Intervention Sectors
Health
Location
- Lebanon
- Beirut
Application Deadline
Organisation
Salary Range
1200 to 1500 (USD)
Contract Type
Full Time
Requires a Cover Letter?
No
Experience Requirements
3 to 5 years
Education Degree
Masters Degree
Education Degree Details
Required Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Health Information Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in health statistics, epidemiology, or data management, preferably with exposure to hospital mortality system or civil registration systems.
• knowledge of ICD-10 coding and data quality assurance procedures.
• Proven experience in data analysis, visualization, and report preparation using statistical software and dashboards.
• Excellent communication and training skills, with the ability to coordinate with hospital staff, Qadaa offices, and other stakeholders.
• Experience in project management, SOP development, and capacity-building activities.
• Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Health Information Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in health statistics, epidemiology, or data management, preferably with exposure to hospital mortality system or civil registration systems.
• knowledge of ICD-10 coding and data quality assurance procedures.
• Proven experience in data analysis, visualization, and report preparation using statistical software and dashboards.
• Excellent communication and training skills, with the ability to coordinate with hospital staff, Qadaa offices, and other stakeholders.
• Experience in project management, SOP development, and capacity-building activities.
Arabic
Fluent
English
Fluent
French
None
Hide guidelines for wrong answers
No