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Qual and Quant Analytics, Albuquerque, NM, 87111, USA.
BMC Public Health. 2018 Feb 27;18(1):293. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5195-1.
The number of university global health training programs has grown in recent years. However, there is little research on the needs of the global health profession. We therefore set out to characterize the global health employment market by analyzing global health job vacancies.
We collected data from advertised, paid positions posted to web-based job boards, email listservs, and global health organization websites from November 2015 to May 2016. Data on requirements for education, language proficiency, technical expertise, physical location, and experience level were analyzed for all vacancies. Descriptive statistics were calculated for the aforementioned job characteristics. Associations between technical specialty area and requirements for non-English language proficiency and overseas experience were calculated using Chi-square statistics. A qualitative thematic analysis was performed on a subset of vacancies.
We analyzed the data from 1007 global health job vacancies from 127 employers. Among private and non-profit sector vacancies, 40% (n = 354) were for technical or subject matter experts, 20% (n = 177) for program directors, and 16% (n = 139) for managers, compared to 9.8% (n = 87) for entry-level and 13.6% (n = 120) for mid-level positions. The most common technical focus area was program or project management, followed by HIV/AIDS and quantitative analysis. Thematic analysis demonstrated a common emphasis on program operations, relations, design and planning, communication, and management.
Our analysis shows a demand for candidates with several years of experience with global health programs, particularly program managers/directors and technical experts, with very few entry-level positions accessible to recent graduates of global health training programs. It is unlikely that global health training programs equip graduates to be competitive for the majority of positions that are currently available in this field.
近年来，大学全球健康培训项目的数量有所增加。然而，关于全球卫生专业人员的需求研究甚少。因此，我们通过分析全球卫生工作空缺来描述全球卫生就业市场。
我们从 2015 年 11 月至 2016 年 5 月从基于网络的求职板、电子邮件列表服务和全球卫生组织网站上收集已公布的、有报酬的职位数据。我们分析了所有职位空缺的教育、语言熟练程度、技术专长、物理位置和工作经验水平等方面的要求。我们还计算了上述职位特征的描述性统计数据。使用卡方检验计算了特定技术专业领域与非英语语言熟练程度和海外经验要求之间的关联。我们对一部分职位空缺进行了定性主题分析。
我们分析了来自 127 家雇主的 1007 个全球卫生工作空缺的数据。在私营和非营利部门的空缺中，技术或主题专家占 40%（n=354），项目主管占 20%（n=177），经理占 16%（n=139），相比之下，入门级职位占 9.8%（n=87），中级职位占 13.6%（n=120）。最常见的技术重点领域是项目或计划管理，其次是艾滋病毒/艾滋病和定量分析。主题分析表明，人们普遍强调项目运营、关系、设计和规划、沟通和管理。
我们的分析表明，对具有多年全球卫生项目经验的候选人的需求很大，尤其是项目经理/主管和技术专家，而刚毕业的全球卫生培训项目的毕业生很难获得很少的入门级职位。全球卫生培训项目不太可能使毕业生具备竞争力，以胜任目前该领域大多数职位的要求。
