National Consultant

**Contractual Arrangement**: External consultant

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 6 months

**Job Posting**: Aug 13, 2025, 2:13:58 AM

**Closing Date**: Aug 27, 2025, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: Viet Nam-Hanoi

**Organization**: WP_VNM Viet Nam

**Schedule**: Full-time

**Purpose of the Consultancy**:
Experts in supporting specialized content in the Law on Disease Prevention (LDP) and related legal documents. The consultant will provide technical assistance to the Viet Nam Administration of Disease Prevention (VADP)/ MOH during the development of LDP with a focus on communicable diseases, including vaccine preventable diseases and immunization related content.

**Background**:
Over the past 15 years, the implementation of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases has revealed both achievements and shortcomings. These shortcomings include policy related obstacles and outdated provisions that no longer align with practical needs, requiring revision and supplementation. To address these issues and align with the directives of the Central Party, the National Assembly, the Government, and the Prime Minister, a new law, the LDP, is currently under development. This law aims to fill legal gaps, enhance preventive measures, improve healthcare, and especially include provisions on ensuring financial resources for preventive health. To date, the VADP, as the focal point department under MOH leadership and with support from WHO, has submitted a proposal to the Government to develop the LDP and has proposed its inclusion in the Law Development Agenda of the National Assembly in 2025. The intended plan is to present the draft law at the National Assembly meeting in August 2025 for the November hearing.

The objective of this short-term consultant position is to provide expertise inputs pertaining to communicable disease surveillance, outbreak and emergency preparedness and response including of health quarantine, use of vaccines and biological products both in routine and in emergency situations, in responding to the comments/ queries from the Government and National Assembly’s Standing Committee, and to finalize the proposal dossier for the development of the new LDP for a final submission, as described below.

**Deliverables**:
Under the overall supervision of the Health Security and Emergency (HSE) Team Coordinator of the WHO Viet Nam Country Office (WCO), in coordination with the Communicable Disease Control and National Immunization Management Division as the assigned focal points at VADP for Communicable Disease Control and Vaccine and Biological Areas, related government units and other key partners, the consultant is expected to undertake the tasks as described below:

- Review, collect, and update information on infectious disease prevention and control, such as measures for prevention and control, disease surveillance, vaccine use and immunization, and disease prevention assurance systems, including the disease prevention fund, etc.
- Support the development of a draft LDP and related legal documents in infectious disease prevention and control.
- Assist in the development and completion of reports summarizing the implementation of laws or evaluating the current state of social relations related to the draft, reports reviewing the Party's policies and guidelines, legal documents, evaluating administrative procedures, and reports on the implementation of legal documents.
- Participate in evaluation delegations in provinces and cities (if applicable).
- Attend meetings and workshops on the development of laws and legal documents.
- Support the development of legal documents and implementation guidelines.
- Carry out activities within the framework of law development and legal document formulation.
- Hold weekly update meetings with WHO on the progress of the Law on Disease Prevention and serve as the technical focal point to facilitate communication between WHO and the VADP.
- Report on task implementation progress.

Method(s) to carry out the activity

The consultant shall collaborate with other experts and professional staff at VADP in carrying out major steps in the law development process. These include reviewing comments from Members of the Government and providing revisions to the development of related LDP content, submitting the draft LDP Law to the National Assembly’s Standing Committee, reviewing comments from the Committee on Social Affairs and Committee on Legislation of the National Assembly and relevant units/organization and provide revisions to the related LDP content accordingly.

Output 1: Draft LDP submitted to MOH leaders and related Departments for review and endorsement.

Deliverable 1: Draft related to communicable diseases, vaccine, and biological content of LDP completed.

Output 2: Draft LDP submitted to the Office of Government for endorsement

Deliverable 2: Draft related communicable diseases, vaccine, and biological content of LDP revised after revi