Call for Applications: Africa CDC Continental Immunization Advisory Council Membership 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 21, 2026

Africa CDC invites expressions of curiosity from distinguished African leaders, consultants, and advocates to function members of the Continental Immunization Advisory Council (CIAC). The CIAC is a excessive-stage strategic advisory and motion-oriented platform established to speed up the supply of the Africa CDC Continental Immunization Strategy 2026–2030 (CIS) and broader Continental Immunization precedence points in Africa. The CIS Strategy positions immunization as a foundational pillar of resilient, epidemic-prepared main well being care, well being safety, fairness, and sustainable improvement throughout Africa.

Roles of the CIAC Members

CIAC members will function senior strategic advisors, advocates, and accelerators for the implementation of the Continental Immunization Strategy. Members will probably be anticipated to convey unbiased judgment, management expertise, technical perception, political affect, financing experience, group views, or institutional networks that may assist drive momentum in advancing immunization in Africa. 

Members will present excessive-stage strategic recommendation to Africa CDC on alternatives, dangers, and bottlenecks affecting immunization programs; champion immunization as a precedence for main well being care, well being safety, fairness, and human capital; and assist advocacy for sustainable home financing, companion alignment, and accountability. They might also be invited to contribute to focused working teams, coverage dialogues, drawback fixing, advocacy engagements, or comply with-up actions linked to CIAC suggestions. 

Members will present:

• Strategic steering on continental immunization priorities, dangers, alternatives, and implementation of bottlenecks. 
• Decisive motion and drawback fixing together with on complicated points requiring political dedication, management and possession 
• Advocacy assist to maintain immunization excessive on political, parliamentary, financing, companion, and public well being agendas. 
• Advice on sustainable financing, fairness-centered supply, zero-dose and underneath-immunized youngsters, outbreak prevention, and integration with main well being care and well being safety programs. 
• Support for accountability by reviewing progress updates and recommending actions to speed up outcomes linked with the Continental Immunization Forum. 
• Use of members’ networks and affect to advance Continental Immunization priorities, whereas respecting Africa CDC and Member State management. 

Eligibility

Africa CDC seeks expressions of curiosity from people with acknowledged management, credibility, and affect in areas which might be vital to advancing immunization outcomes throughout Africa. CIAC membership will goal to convey collectively a daring and balanced mixture of political management, technical experience, financing perception, implementation expertise, group voice, and strategic advocacy capability.  

• Political, parliamentary, diplomatic, or coverage affect that may assist elevate immunization on nationwide, regional, and continental agendas.
• Senior management expertise in public well being, immunization, main well being care, well being safety, or broader well being programs strengthening. 
• Demonstrated experience in immunization coverage, vaccine-preventable illness management, zero-dose and underneath-immunized populations, outbreak prevention and response, or life-course vaccination. 
• Experience in public finance, home useful resource mobilization, well being financing, progressive financing, budgeting, funding instances, or sustainable financing for well being and immunization. 
• Experience with group engagement, civil society management, demand era, danger communication, gender fairness, youth engagement, or reaching underserved and marginalized populations.
• Strong understanding of implementation challenges in African contexts, together with fragile, battle-affected, cross-border, humanitarian, city poor, distant, and exhausting-to-attain settings. 
• Capacity to convene, advocate, construct consensus, and mobilize motion throughout governments, regional our bodies, companions, communities, academia, the non-public sector, and civil society. 
• Commitment to fairness, accountability, transparency, moral conduct, and efficient options for sustainable immunization impression.

Application

Interested people are invited to submit an expression of curiosity bundle that features:  

• a quick biography and  
• a letter of curiosity outlining their related expertise, experience, motivation for serving on the CIAC, and the particular contribution they’d convey to advancing continental immunization priorities.  
• Members should preserve a resolute urgency for immunization progress in Africa. Please don’t apply if you don’t convey this. 

Submissions needs to be despatched no later than 21 July 2026. Africa CDC will evaluation submissions towards the specified experience, management profile, regional and gender stability, and general composition required for an efficient and consultant Council.

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