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

ABSTRACT: 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 inc

SUBMITTER: Mehand MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6106429 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature