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World Health Organization Methodology to Prioritize Emerging Infectious Diseases in Need of Research and Development
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Sep 2018
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Source: Emerg Infect Dis. 24(9).
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Alternative Title:Emerg Infect Dis
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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.
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Pubmed ID:30124424
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC6106429
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