Clinical Advisor

**JOB DETAILS**

**Position Title**:Clinical Advisor

**Location**:Hanoi, Vietnam

**Duration**:January 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

**ABOUT UCSF**

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the world’s leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging and stem cells.

About GSI: The Center for Global Strategic Information and Public Health Practice (GSI) believes that the road to achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets - by the year 2030, 95 percent of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 95 percent of all people with diagnosed HIV will receive antiretroviral therapy, and 95 percent of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression - begins by translating the right knowledge into the right decisions. Since 2000, we have furthered data-driven science in the countries where we work. We help strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to collect, synthesize and use strategic information to inform, guide and monitor evidence-based responses to the HIV epidemic. Our support helps countries control their HIV epidemics to reach the 95-95-95 targets by 2030.

About IGHS: UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) is dedicated to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in the world’s most vulnerable populations. It integrates UCSF expertise in all of the health, social, and biological sciences, and focuses that expertise on pressing issues in global health. IGHS works globally to achieve these aims. IGHS seeks to improve health worldwide, especially in developing countries, through research that informs policy.

This position will be hired through a third-party employment organization.

**PROJECT SUMMARY (FOR PROGRAM STAFF)**

At UCSF, the **A**lliance for **C**ountry-led **C**ontrol of the HIV **E**pidemic by **L**everaging **E**fficient **R**esource **A**llocation **T**o achieve **E**quity (ACCELERATE) project is housed in GSI and within the larger IGHS. ACCELERATE in Vietnam aims to leverage a global network of HIV expertise and peer learning that supports the translation of HIV science in Vietnam through innovations, policy, and leadership; enhances systems and capacity for high quality equitable care; and provides stop-gap support for new medicines, best practices, and technologies, with the goal of catalyzing excellence in Vietnam’s HIV program through visionary, supportive, and proactive collaboration. This project will promote person-centered HIV services through targeted technical assistance (TA) and building local capacity within the Ministry of Health (MOH) at the national and policy level and its provincial and site affiliates for adoption and implementation. The scale-up of HIV biomedical innovations and technologies and community-facility linkages and engagement will be critical to advancing health equity and person-centered care.

**SUMMARY OF ROLE**

The Clinical Advisor should be an experienced physician who will work closely with the Government of Vietnam (GVN) and U.S. CDC Vietnam staff to provide technical support to provincial health agencies (e.g., provincial technical teams [PTTs], provincial CDCs, departments of health, etc.) and clinical staff at care and treatment and prevention sites across the country. Under direction from the Clinical Lead at UCSF, this position is expected to work and liaise closely with a wide array of HIV contributors in the health sector, including community advisory boards (CABs) and community partners in Vietnam as well as faculty from UCSF. Comprehensive knowledge of current HIV/AIDS issues, care and support, counseling and interventions, behavior change, testing, treatment and prevention strategies such as PrEP is required. The technical support from the Clinical Advisor will inform activities in support of increasing rapid adoption of international evidence and best practices into Vietnam’s national HIV programs and policies, increasing GVN’s use of innovative approaches for access, testing, and linkage to HIV prevention services, and increasing GVN’s ownership of durable HIV program quality. This will include providing TA to the MOH to incorporate WHO guidelines, U.S. CDC guidelines, and international best practices into national treatment, PrEP, and prevention guidelines; supporting MOH and healthcare workers to adopt updated national treatment, case finding, and PrEP guidelines; presenting and supporting the implementation of the latest scientific updates, best practices, and innovations in care and treatment and prevention; and identification of and TA to respond to s