World Health Organization Methodology to Prioritize Emerging Infectious Diseases in Need of Research and Development

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Mehand, Massinissa Si ; Millett, Piers ; Al-Shorbaji, Farah ; Roth, Cathy ; Kieny, Marie Paule ; Murgue, Bernadette
• Description:
  The World Health Organization R&D Blueprint aims to accelerate the availability of medical technologies during epidemics by focusing on a list of prioritized emerging diseases for which medical countermeasures are insufficient or nonexistent. The prioritization process has 3 components: a Delphi process to narrow down a list of potential priority diseases, a multicriteria decision analysis to rank the short list of diseases, and a final Delphi round to arrive at a final list of 10 diseases. A group of international experts applied this process in January 2017, resulting in a list of 10 priority diseases. The robustness of the list was tested by performing a sensitivity analysis. The new process corrected major shortcomings in the pre-R&D Blueprint approach to disease prioritization and increased confidence in the results.
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases, Emerging/prevention & Control Delphi Technique Humans Online Report Organizational Objectives
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(9).
• Pubmed ID:
  30124424
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6106429
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  World Health Organization ; World Health Organization
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:857e33cc25bc9bfde801728380c907d81b33338590d443c914102ca2ffef01cc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/58622/cdc_58622_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.04 MB ]