MSF Access Regional Pharmacist America Hub

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Job Title: MSF Access Regional Pharmacist America Hub Contract Type: Short-term contract Duration: 12 months Working Time: Full time Starting Date: ASAP Deadline to apply: July 10, 2026 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Reporting to: Head of Americas Hub

Compensation and benefits: MSF practice is to offer the C&B package current in the MSF entity establishing the contract. I. BACKGROUND MSF INTERNATIONAL Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF International is the legal entity that binds MSF’s 24 sections, 27 associations and 18 branch offices together. Registered in Switzerland, MSF International provides coordination, information, and support to the MSF Movement, as well as implements international projects and initiatives as requested. MSF ACCESS Access to Products for Healthcare is critical to MSF's Social Mission. It refers to the accessibility, availability, affordability, appropriateness, and quality of products for healthcare for the populations MSF assists and their communities. MSF has been engaged in a wide variety of ways to improve Access in past decades through the work of MSF’s Access Campaign. In 2023, the MSF International Board approved the set-up of a new organisational model for Access work in MSF, building upon the works carried out by Access Campaign. MSF Access team is transitioned from this process and has the responsibility of analysing and developing initiatives to address technical and structural challenges in ensuring equitable access to quality assured, affordable, adaptive and appropriate medical tools needed in MSF settings and beyond. The newly established MSF Access structure replaces the former Access Campaign with a broader scope of work, operating through five strategic regional hubs: Dakar, Senegal: West and Central Africa.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: The Americas.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Asia and Oceania.

Nairobi, Kenya: Eastern and Southern Africa.

Brussels, Belgium: Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

In MSF Access team’s strategic plan 2026-2031 and the annual plan 2026, enhancing strategic approach towards evolving regulatory landscapes and their impact on access in MSF settings has been included as one priority area for analysis. In the Americas, local and regional production and innovation, combined with regulatory convergence and harmonization, are increasingly central to ensuring sustainable access to essential health products. At the same time, regulatory complexity, fragmented approval pathways and limited sourcing options continue to constrain MSF operations and public health systems. This position strengthens MSF Access’ regional capacity to analyse, influence and engage on production, innovation and regulatory agendas, ensuring they are explicitly oriented toward access and public health needs, including MSF operational priorities. II. PLACEMENT The Regional Pharmacist is part of the MSF Access Americas Hub and reports to the Head of the Americas Region. The position works in close collaboration with the Americas regional advisors and has a strong functional link with the Analysis Department of the MSF Access team, a multidisciplinary group of experts working on medical, pharmaceutical, legal and policy issues related to access to health products. III. OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION The objective of the position is to strengthen MSF Access’ understanding of local and regional production in the Americas, with a particular focus on how regulatory frameworks, harmonization initiatives, reliance models, policies affecting the importation, exportation and regional circulation of health products, and mechanisms designed to incentivize local and regional production create opportunities or pose risks for equitable access to quality‑assured medicines, diagnostics and vaccines, including how regulation shapes markets and access, influences market dynamics through systemic barriers and enablers, and impacts equity and the availability of essential health products across countries in the region. Through in‑depth regulatory and policy analysis, the position aims to generate actionable evidence to inform MSF operations, advocacy and engagement on local production, regional supply strategies, pooled procurement and other collaborative purchasing mechanisms, as well as broader efforts to improve sustainable and equitable access to health technologies across the region. IV. MAIN ACTIVITIES Understand existing production, innovation and regulatory landscapes (diagnostic core)

Monitor and analyse existing national and regional production and innovation initiatives related to medicines, vaccines and diagnostics, including developments concerning: Technology transfer and licensing initiatives

Public and regional manufacturing capacity

Regional collaboration and coordination platforms

Funding mechanisms and industrial policy instruments

Regulatory approval pathways, market authorization processes, importation and exportation frameworks, procurement mechanisms, and reliance/harmonization mechanisms, and their interaction with market structures, shaping both the feasibility of local and regional production and its impact on equitable access, including product availability, pricing, affordability, and supply security

Conduct desk reviews and ongoing analysis of existing regional and national policies, strategies and initiatives related to local and regional production and innovation.

Map and analyse regulatory landscapes, harmonization initiatives and regulatory reliance models relevant to medicines, diagnostics and vaccines in the Americas, including key international, regional and selected national initiatives.

2. Identify barriers, risks and…