Under the general supervision of the Director and the direct supervision of the Assistant Director, the selected candidate will: • Provide strategic, technical, policy, and programmatic leadership for PAHO’s work in communicable diseases, zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, infection prevention and control, communicable disease risk factors, and food safety. The Communicable Diseases Prevention, Control and Elimination (CDE) Department promotes, coordinates, and implements technical cooperation activities directed toward the surveillance, prevention, control, elimination and/or reduction of communicable diseases and zoonosis throughout the Region of the Americas.