Development of a maturity assessment tool to evaluate and strengthen National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs)

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• Alternative Title:
  Vaccine
• Personal Author:
  Dryer, Eliza ; Shefer, Abigail ; Desai, Shalini ; Rodewald, Lance ; Bastías, Magdalena ; Omeiri, Nathalie El ; Ndiaye, Sidy ; Cook, Kori ; Henaff, Louise ; Kennedy, Erin
• Description:
  As dozens of new National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) were established worldwide in the past decade, and as existing NITAGs continued to play an important role in vaccine policy, global NITAG partners recognized a need for a standardized assessment tool to evaluate and strengthen their functions. This article describes the development of the NITAG Maturity Assessment Tool (NMAT), a stepwise evaluation tool that assesses NITAGs on seven key indicators of structure and process. A draft tool was developed through an iterative, consensus-based process with an expert working group before it was piloted with an economically and geographically diverse convenience sample of NITAGs. The final NMAT is a flexible tool that can be used by in-country or external evaluators to understand NITAG maturity, identify priorities for optimization, and measure the impact of strengthening efforts.
• Subjects:
  Advisory Committees Global Health Health Policy Humans Immunization Immunization Programs Vaccination Vaccines
• Keywords:
  Evaluation Evidence-based Recommendations Health System Strengthening Immunization Policy NITAG
• Source:
  Vaccine. 42(22):126005
• Pubmed ID:
  38802292
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11371511
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  001/WHO_/World Health OrganizationInternational/ ; CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  22
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:538be5535cece051964e6e78f16271a379b6d3c2658b741e0408a8926b23a548c5bec87050d3dcffbecd150e6757c6e8f8bcb2fcf5ce17b8f2e145f4b8ef26dc
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