Senior Global Health Security; GHS Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Haiti

Zemi Tek, LLC is a Woman-Owned, SBA-certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) based in the Washington, DC metro area. We have a strong record delivering innovative and high-quality solutions. Since 2007, Zemi Tek has provided technical assistance, project management, information technology (IT), knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, training and learning development, and institutional support services.

Global Solutions Ventures (GSV) - a joint-venture partnership between Zemi Tek, LLC and Dexis Consulting Group - is implementing the Long-term Exceptional Technical Assistance Project (LEAP Global), a mechanism originally used by USAID to battle against infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, and pandemic influenza. As of July 1, 2025, LEAP Global transitioned to the U.S. Department of State (DOS).

This initiative aims to address the complex human resource challenges faced by national infectious disease programs in the USA-supported countries.

The intervention of this project is to hire and embed technical expert advisors and subject matter experts within government entities. By directly embedding the technical expertise within the national programs, LEAP provides long-term, sustainable lifesaving support to empower host governments to lead and manage key aspects of their infectious disease portfolios and improve coordination between the U.S. Government and the host country.

The Senior Epidemiologist will provide high-level technical assistance to strengthen outbreak prevention, detection, and response using a Multisectoral Health Framework in Haiti and support the Ministries of Agriculture and Health in carrying out life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) service delivery in full alignment with the new Presidential Executive Order (EO) directives. The position will support the Ministry of Agriculture, and animal health protection services while reinforcing collaboration with the Ministry of Health to improve integrated surveillance, laboratory coordination, specimen sharing, and joint response mechanisms for priority zoonotic and emerging diseases.

The role focuses on harmonizing surveillance processes, standard operating procedures (SOPs), data sharing, and best practices between human and animal health sectors, with particular emphasis on collaboration between LNSP and Laboratoire Tamarinier
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• Provide technical assistance for the design, strengthening, and implementation of integrated Multisectoral Health Framework surveillance systems for zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases.
• Support harmonization of epidemiological surveillance methodologies, case definitions, and reporting tools across human and animal health sectors.
• Reinforce the systematization of monthly situation room for animal health surveillance with human epidemic potential, align with MSPP DELR practices and priorities
• Analyze and interpret surveillance data from agriculture and health sectors to inform risk assessment, early warning, and decision-making.
• Support joint outbreak investigations involving animal, human, and environmental health actors.

• Strengthen preparedness and response capacity for priority zoonotic and animal diseases with public health implications.
• Provide technical guidance during outbreak investigations, including field epidemiology, data analysis, and response coordination.
• Support development and testing of multisectoral contingency plans, rapid response mechanisms, and simulation exercises.
• Promote early detection strategies and community-based surveillance approaches where relevant.

• Support harmonization of laboratory processes, SOPs, and quality practices between LNSP and Laboratoire Tamarinier
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• Facilitate development and implementation of specimen referral, sharing, and transport protocols between animal and human health laboratories.
• Promote joint laboratory data sharing, result interpretation, and feedback mechanisms to surveillance units.
• Support strengthening of laboratory-based surveillance for zoonotic diseases, including linkage of laboratory and epidemiological data.

• Serve as a technical bridge between the health global protection coordination, the DoS-funded Project STRIDES, CDC and the LNSP and key stakeholders to operationalize the Multisectoral Health Framework approach.
• Support establishment and functioning of multisectoral technical working groups and coordination platforms.
• Promote alignment of policies, guidelines, and standard practices related to surveillance, outbreak response, and laboratory collaboration.
• Support collaboration with international partners, research institutions, and regional networks as appropriate.

• Work with CDC to ensure animal health is integrated in the FETP program
• Provide on-the-job…