Modeling the public health impact of malaria vaccines for developers and policymakers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efforts to develop malaria vaccines show promise. Mathematical model-based estimates of the potential demand, public health impact, and cost and financing requirements can be used to inform investment and adoption decisions by vaccine developers and policymakers on the use of malaria vaccines as complements to existing interventions. However, the complexity of such models may make their outputs inaccessible to non-modeling specialists. This paper describes a Malaria Vaccine Model (MVM) developed to address the specific needs of developers and policymakers, who need to access sophisticated modeling results and to test various scenarios in a user-friendly interface. The model's functionality is demonstrated through a hypothetical vaccine.

Methods

The MVM has three m

SUBMITTER: Nunes JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3711926 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature