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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2018

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

Massinissa Si Mehand, Piers Millett, Farah Al-Shorbaji, Cathy Roth, Marie Paule Kieny, Bernadette Murgue

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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73 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Massinissa Si Mehand
Piers Millett
Farah Al-Shorbaji
Cathy Roth
Marie Paule Kieny
Bernadette Murgue

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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 increased confidence in the results.

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ResearchWorld Health OrganizationCommunicable Diseases, EmergingDelphi TechniqueHumansOrganizational ObjectivesbacteriaCrimean-Congo hemorrhagic feverEbola virusepidemicsexpert opinionhantavirusLassa virusMarburg virus infectionMiddle East respiratory syndrome coronavirusmulticriteria decision analysismultidisciplinary methodNipah virusplagueprioritizationR&D BlueprintRift Valley feversevere acute respiratory syndromesevere emerging infectious diseasessevere fever with thrombocytopenia syndromeSouth American hemorrhagic fevervirusesWorld Health OrganizationZika virus

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PMID30124424
PMCPMC6106429

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