2021 Health Literacy Leadership Programme of the West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH)
Application Deadline: 1st February, 2021.
As a non-state regional health development organisation (RHDO), the West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) is for strengthening public health, enabling environment, improving public health systems and developing the professional capacity to ensure the performance of public health functions. To achieve its mission, the Institute is innovation-driven, working to support governments and partners to create dynamic, resilient, equitable, integrated, decentralized and participatory health systems within a just and empowered society in the spirit of universal access to health with primary health care as the cornerstone. The institute is also the custodian of the Regional Charter of Public Health, which is used to develop strategic approaches for public health functions and human capacity development in the West Africa Region.
The key pillars of the Institute’s interventions are advocacy, policy, research, education/ training, standards, competency, certifications and public health programme implementation.
Health Literacy Leadership Programme (HLLP) was designed by the Institute to improve health information, communication and promotion in order to equip young people with advocacy and leadership skills to position them as change agents and advocates towards promoting health literacy and influencing policy makers in achieving a UHC.
Aims and Objectives
- To develop the legislative advocacy capacity of the participants
- To equip young leaders with the capacity to filter and articulate strategic health information.
- To strengthen health literacy effort by increasing the critical numbers of young health literacy advocates through the Health Literacy Leadership Course (HLLC)
- To catalyse advocacy engagements on critical public health issues especially through new media
- To build a critical mass and network of young advocates and health literacy champions.
What is expected of participants:
- Participants are expected to be engaged in an intensive two-day virtual teaching. 2. For the period of 3 months, participants are expected to visit their immediate communities to make research on various health issues and challenges. 3. Submit reports of research and observations from their communities. 4. Publish at least one blog article month to advocate for key health issues and challenges in the society.
Criteria for Participation
- A master’s degree in any discipline and a minimum of 2 years post graduation. Applicants should not be above 30 years at time of application. 2. Good command of English; the participants should possess excellent oral and written communication skills. 3. Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team. 4. Adept at using major social media platforms Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn and participate effectively in tweet chats, interviews, articles, campaigns and meetings.
Programme duration
HLLP is a 3 months leadership programme that includes; a two-day Course (HLLC) and a Leadership Project which requires participants to carry out monthly self-initiated projects. The projects will be in form of advocacy or campaign about a public health issue in their communities, as participants are expected to engage policymakers and to bring the problem to their attention, especially legislators.
By the 1st of February, 2021, the application will close.
Application procedures
Interested applicants should send their expression of interest which should address how the candidate’s background relates to advocacy experience and the eligibility criteria mentioned and their curriculum vitae. These documents should be submitted to hIlp©publichealth-edu.org
For further details, log on to the Official Webpage of the WAIPH Health Literacy Leadership Programme 2021.
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