Long- and short-term consultants play important roles on Management Sciences For Health's (MSH) technical teams, providing additional expertise as needed. Consultants have graduate-level training and, usually, significant international experience. Quite often, consultants work directly with MSH overseas field project staff and national counterparts and occasionally contribute to program activities in Boston, MA, and Washington, DC.

MSH does not list consultancy openings; instead, MSH maintains a database of public health experts worldwide, which it refers to when seeking suitable candidates, often on short notice. When seeking consultants to work on an MSH project, MSH will draw on its up-to-date computerized data base of international public health professionals and other experts working in international development to identify individuals for various opportunities.