National Development And Reform Commission Tender

Expression of Interest: Consultant for Health strategy, policy, and reform specialist Backgroundemerging infectious diseases (eid) continue to be a significant public health concern and cause for considerable socioeconomic issue in the people’s republic of china (prc). Most of these eids are zoonoses— approximately 60% of all known human infectious diseases in the world, and about 75% of eids affecting people are zoonoses—diseases that originate from animals. Eids are important because of its complex nature and the impact of which transcends the health sector. The experiences highlighted by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) in 2003 and the new coronavirus disease (covid-19), both of which are eids, demonstrate immediate consequences on illness and death, travel restrictions, and stringent community quarantine measures; and is equally magnified in the economy, with the slowing down of trade and supply chains, businesses, travel, consumer spending, and overall economic activity. Covid-19 is expected to have serious impact on poverty and welfare, through illness, death, and lost incomes. Economic forecast notes that continued covid-19 outbreak would cost the prc as much as $692 billion in economic losses. The unprecedented impact of covid-19 outbreak has led to prc’s renewed interest on the development of focused preparedness and response program for longer-term health security. Preventing future outbreaks in eid hotspots such as the prc is an important investment. The regional and global public goods nature of health, prevention, and control of eids is fundamentally an issue of international security and economic development. The prc, through the national development and reform commission (ndrc), has requested the asian development bank (adb) support for an investment project to strengthen health security in the country. The project is expected to improve the management of epidemics of infectious diseases and other health hazards. It is aligned with the following impacts: capacity for early warning, risk reduction, and management of national health risks strengthened; and prevention and control of major communicable diseases strengthened. To prepare the proposed project, adb has approved a transaction technical assistance (ta) to be administered by adb through the urban and social sectors division, east asia department. A team of individual consultants will be recruited and will be responsible for project preparation and initiation of project start-up arrangements, specifically (i) prepare feasibility studies for the project outputs and activities, (ii) conduct due diligence for the project to ensure compliance with adb policies and requirements, (iii) prepare detailed project design and required project documents, (iv) build project management capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, and (v) provide other services as necessary to prepare the project. The consultants work may include surveys and field investigations ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB),