Digital Health Market Shaping Toolkit Consultant

Post of Duty: Washington D.C – USA.

The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.

About this position

We are looking for a dynamic, innovative, and experienced digital health market shaping toolkit consultant. As the digital health market shaping toolkit you will be responsible for working with IDB team to design a toolkit to support the scale up market shaping policies for innovation, interoperability and other key areas of digital health.

The Social Sector (SCL) is a multidisciplinary team convinced that investing in people is the way to improve lives and overcome the development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Jointly with the countries in the region, the Social Sector formulates public policy solutions to reduce poverty and improve the delivery of education, work, social protection, and health services. The objective is to advance a more productive region, with equal opportunities for men and women, and greater inclusion of the most vulnerable groups.

You will work for the Social Protection and Health Division (SPH) is tasked with the preparation and supervision of IDB operations in borrowing member countries in the areas of social protection (safety nets and transfers and services for social inclusion which include: early childhood development, youth programs, care services for dependency, among others), health (health capital investment strategies, health networks strengthening, health system financing, organization and performance, etc.) and nutrition.

What you’ll do:

The primary function of this role is creating a marketing shaping toolkit for digital health. Main deliverables include: 1) Policy brief on global success and failures in market shaping in digital health; 2) Policy brief with recommendations for policy measures that could be adopted to support important policy reforms in LAC for digital health. Key activities include:

• Create a workplan, methodology, and list of key stakeholders to involve throughout the process.
  • Methodology should include literature review and key informant interviews at minimum
• Identify strategic interventions and initiatives aimed at transforming and optimizing the digital health market to better meet public health needs, improve healthcare delivery, and ensure sustainable growth at the global level.
  • Examples should include approaches to address market failures, reduce barriers to entry, stimulate innovation, and create a favorable environment for digital health solutions and health information exchange to thrive such as but not limited to: Regulatory Frameworks; Incentive Programs; Public-Private Partnerships; Data Interoperability Standards; Market Research and Analysis; Capacity Building Initiatives; Funding and Investment; and Procurement Policies.
• Draft two policy briefs:
  • Policy brief should be no longer than 30 pages but can include technical annexes with references and additional information
  • Policy brief should include annex with indicators/key performance indicators used for Incentive Programs
  • Policy brief should include results of / estimation of economic impact of policy changes
  • Policy brief 1 on global success and failures in market shaping in digital health, including efforts to incentivize innovation and interoperability and domestic and international health information exchange, among others.
  • Policy brief 2 for the IDB and LAC region with recommendations for policy measures that could be adopted to support important policy reforms.
  • Finalize draft according to IDB comments.

Deliverables and Payments Timeline:

• Product 1: Workplan and policy brief outlines.
• Product 2: Draft policy brief 1
• Product 3: Drafts policy brief 2
• Product 4: Final policy briefs 1 and 2