Presentation

Using PATH’s Vaccine Cost Calculators to inform immunization decision-making

For country-level policymakers, the opportunity to introduce a new vaccine comes with many considerations. Is the vaccine needed? What are the benefits? Is there enough capacity in the cold chain system? Often most important—what will it cost, and can our country afford it? Adding complexity to complexity, new vaccine products and new formulations of existing vaccines continue to be developed and commercialized, which can make decisions more daunting when a country is choosing which vaccine product to introduce or switch to. PATH’s new Vaccine Cost Calculators https://www.path.org/programs/center-for-vaccine-innovation-and-access/vaccine-cost-calculators-resources-inform-immunization-decision-making/ can help, providing an easy way for country-level decision-makers to assess and compare the costs of certain vaccination programs over a period of 10 years with each vaccine product available in the global market. These Excel-based tools are currently available in English, French, Russian, and Spanish for rotavirus vaccines and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. A calculator for human papillomavirus vaccines is coming in 2021, with potentially more to follow. PATH’s Frédéric Debellut will share the rationale and process behind the development of these tools and provide a demonstration of how to actually use the tools, allowing lots of time for questions and comments from webinar participants.

Speaker: Frédéric Debellut is a senior health economist at PATH’s Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access. He is responsible for the design and conduct of economic analyses with the objective to generate and translate economic evidence that informs donor investments, global policy, and country vaccine introduction decisions. His work encompasses cost of delivery and cost-effectiveness studies, budget impact analyses, and demand forecasting, and focuses on vaccines against rotavirus, typhoid, human papillomavirus, meningitis A, and seasonal influenza.

Authors

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2021

Type

Presentation

Categories

  • Programme management

Tags

  • Cost analysis

Topic references

EPI-CORE-MONITORING

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Assessing and Improving the Accuracy of Target Population Estimates for Immunization CoverageWorld Health Organization (WHO)GuidanceEnglish
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS)World Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryEnglish
Data Quality Review (DQR) ToolkitWorld Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryEnglish
E-learning module on Immunization Coverage DataUNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO)2020TrainingEnglish
Global Immunization SummaryWorld Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryEnglish
Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER)GATHERRepositorySpanish
Immunization in Practice. Module 6. Monitoring and SurveillanceWorld Health Organization (WHO)2015GuidanceEnglish
Practical `How-to’ guides for vaccination coverage surveysWorld Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryEnglish
Practical Guide for the Design, Use, and Promotion of Home-Based Records in Immunization ProgrammesWorld Health Organization (WHO)2015GuidanceEnglish, French
The immunization data quality audit (DQA) procedureWorld Health Organization (WHO)2003ToolEnglish
The immunization data quality self-assessment (DQS) toolWorld Health Organization (WHO)2005ToolEnglish
Using PATH’s Vaccine Cost Calculators to inform immunization decision-makingPATH2021PresentationEnglish
WHO recommendations on home-based records for maternal, newborn and child healthWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish, French
World Health Organization Vaccination Coverage Cluster Surveys: Reference ManualWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish

Added by: Moderator

Added on: 2021-01-21 02:19:46

Hits: 1600

Uploaded file

VaccineCostCalculatorsWebinar_20210115.pptx

Click to Download