Health Promotion and Policy Coordination Officernew

The Health Promotion and Policy Coordination Officer will be a member of the Health Promotion and Policy (HPP) unit of the Division of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Control (DPC). The HPP unit works to enable people, communities, and governments to improve health and well‑being by addressing the social, environmental, commercial, and behavioural determinants of health, and by embedding health‑in‑all‑policies and whole‑of‑government approaches across the Western Pacific Region. HPP supports Member States to create healthier settings, strengthen governance for prevention, and advance equity‑driven health promotion policies aligned with regional and global priorities.

The mission of the Division of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Control (DPC) is to advance population health across the life course by accelerating health promotion, preventing communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and strengthening integrated disease control efforts in the Western Pacific Region. DPC supports Member States to address key health risks and determinants, reduce preventable morbidity and mortality, and build resilient, people-centred health systems through multisectoral, equity-focused, and evidence-based approaches.

DPC brings together health promotion, prevention, and control functions to address major health challenges in an integrated manner, covering:
• Health promotion and policy, including action on social determinants of health and healthy settings
• Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including mental health and substance use
• Prevention, elimination, and control of communicable and vaccine‑preventable diseases
• Maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health across the life course
• Nutrition, food safety, laboratory capacity, and health intelligence to support disease prevention and control
• Regional and subregional initiatives to eliminate priority diseases and reduce health inequities

In addition to the HPP unit, the DPC Division also includes the following units:
• Social Determinants of Health and Healthy Settings (SDH)
• Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS)
• Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD)
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MHS)
• Accelerated Communicable Disease Control (ACD)
• Vaccine‑Preventable Diseases and Immunization (VDI)
• Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
• Laboratory and Health Intelligence (LIT)
• Mekong Malaria Elimination Initiative (MME).

The role will report to the Coordinator of the HPP unit, while working as required with other units in the DPC Division, particularly the Health Promotion (HP) cluster. The Health Promotion cluster within DPC brings together units that address the upstream drivers of health, focusing on creating healthy environments, shaping policies beyond the health sector, and empowering people and communities to adopt healthier behaviours. The cluster leads multisectoral and whole‑of‑society approaches to improve population health and reduce health inequities across the Western Pacific Region.

Under the supervision of the Coordinator of Health Promotion and Policy in WHO-WPRO, the Health Promotion and Policy Coordination Officer will carry out the following tasks:

• Assist in coordinating activities across priority areas, specifically tobacco control, alcohol control, physical activity, and injury prevention, to enhance integrated approaches in building health-enabling policy environments and addressing behavioural and commercial determinants of health
• Assist in coordinating NCD surveillance-related work across programme areas, including consolidation of country inputs, monitoring data, and reporting to support integrated prevention and health promotion efforts
• Support the development of technical documents, policy briefs, and advocacy materials that advance health promotion, prevention, and health-in-all-policies approaches
• Assist in organizing meetings, workshops, and webinars that promote whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches, including preparation of materials and documentation of outcomes
• Compile and synthesize country experiences, good practices, and evidence to support cross-country learning, healthier settings, and equity-oriented approaches
• Maintain activity trackers, consolidate inputs across programme areas, and contribute to reporting on progress and results
• Support coordination with DPC units and relevant partners to promote coherent, integrated, and equity-driven health promotion efforts