International Consultant - Health Financing Data, NHA and Financial Protection

About the role

The WHO Country Office in Phnom Penh is seeking an external consultant for a 70-day, part-time assignment to strengthen Cambodia's methods and national capacity for National Health Accounts (NHA) production and financial protection monitoring (SDG 3.8.2), and to provide technical inputs to more integrated and digitalized health financing data systems. The consultant works alongside renewed efforts to institutionalize routine NHA production and to improve the reliability of national health expenditure and household out-of-pocket (OOP) spending data.

Key responsibilities

• Review CSES questionnaires, reports, data dictionaries and datasets from 2009 to 2023, and validate the mapping of OOP health expenditure and household variables needed for financial protection and NHA analysis; review the 2023 and 2025 CSES surveys once the 2025 data are available.
• Prepare and produce reproducible, annotated Stata do-files for the 2025 CSES and generate SDG 3.8.2 estimates, consulting with national counterparts on quality assurance and interpretation.
• Review the current NHA OOP methodology, test options for converting CSES-derived OOP shares into NHA aggregates, and produce 2024 and 2025 OOP aggregates once 2025 data are available.
• Review and revise Cambodia's 2017-2019 NHA data in GHED, focusing on completeness of health expenditure and exchange rates.
• Provide technical inputs to the digitalization of health financing data systems, advising on data requirements, SHA 2011 mapping, validation rules and interoperability.
• Produce a final consultancy report and a complete technical handover package.

Required profile

• University degree in health economics, economics, statistics, econometrics, public health, demography or a closely related field.
• At least seven years of relevant professional experience in health financing, household survey analysis, financial protection monitoring, health accounts or related quantitative work.
• Expert knowledge of English.
• Desirable: master's degree or above, experience with household surveys in Stata, producing financial protection indicators, SHA 2011 and reconciling survey estimates with national accounts; experience in low- or middle-income country government institutions or in Cambodia or the Western Pacific Region is also an asset.

Required skills

• Stata, with reproducible analytical programming and quality assurance practices.
• Strong knowledge of financial protection concepts, SDG 3.8.2, NHA, SHA 2011, GHED reporting and household OOP estimation.
• Ability to write technically and explain complex issues to non-specialists, and to work independently with government teams.

Remuneration is USD 450 per day (payband B), up to 70 working days; travel costs are excluded. The consultant travels to Phnom Penh once or twice, about 4 weeks in total, and may work remotely otherwise.