Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is the defining concept of our time for global health.  The World Health Assembly and the United Nations General Assembly have called on countries to 'urgently and significantly scale up efforts to accelerate the transition towards universal access to affordable and quality healthcare services'.  We argue that universal access to essential healthcare information is a prerequisite for UHC and that it is readily achievable thanks to mobile phone technology.

Would you like to get more experience in public/global health, while working on some interesting and valuable projects, and gaining some great contacts?

Child Healthcare Information for All (CHIFA) is looking for a CHIFA Desk Officer. This is a paid position for 4 hours a week (flexible timing), and is largely home-based/remote working, so it should be easy to fit it around your studies and/or work. 

The successful applicant would need to be based within 50 miles of Oxford to enable occasional visits tothe HIFA office for training and meetings.

Quote of the month: “If a woman becomes pregnant while wearing an Intra-Uterine Device, this device can enter the baby's body, even in his brain." (A misconception about the dangers of using IUDs, reported by Andre Shongo, HIFA Member and Country Representative, Democratic Republic of the Congo)