Experts in the health sector are well qualified to engage in missions in the following :

Public health

• Health policy and health systems analysis : Health policy analysis; Capacity analysis for strategic planning and implementation; planning, organisation and management of health care delivery systems.

• Epidemiology. Communicable and non communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS and other STD

• Social issues and health

Health economics and health financings

• Public expenditure review in health

• Health financing

Pharmaceutical sector

• National drug policy development

• Rational drug use

• Procurement, distribution and dispensation of drugs

• Drugs and trade-related intellectual property rights

Health promotion

• Essential concepts in health promotion (including risk factors, HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) prevention and control, sexual health, family planning (FP), nutrition, life-styles, specific risk group approaches – e.g. children, adolescents, mothers ,elderly persons, commercial sex workers, migrant workers)

• Policy framework for health promotion and institutional framework for health promotion

• Behavioral change