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ArticleFrontiers in public health2022

Developing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations during the pandemic: The experience of Serbia's Expert Committee on Immunization.

Ljiljana Markovic-Denic, Dusan Popadic, Tanja Jovanovic, Branka Bonaci-Nikolic, Janko Samardzic, Vesna Tomic Spiric, Miljan Rancic, Siddhartha Sankar Datta, Liudmila Mosina, Jasna Jancic and 7 more

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Ljiljana Markovic-DenicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Dusan PopadicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Tanja JovanovicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Branka Bonaci-NikolicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Janko SamardzicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Vesna Tomic SpiricFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Miljan RancicWorld Health Organization Country Office Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Siddhartha Sankar DattaWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Liudmila MosinaWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jasna JancicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Goran VukomanovicUniversity Children's Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia.
Verica JovanovicInstitute of Public Health of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Vladislav VukomanovicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Darko AnticFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Marko VeljkovicInstitute of Public Health of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Vladan SaponjicInstitute of Public Health of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Lisa Jacques-CarrollWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
University of Belgrade · RSInstitute of Public Health of Serbia · RSWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe · DKCenter for Health, Exercise and Sport Sciences · RSUniversity Children's Hospital, Belgrade · RS

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World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) is a multi-disciplinary body of national experts that provide evidence-based recommendations to policy-makers to assist them in making informed immunization policy and programme decisions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, NITAGs faced many challenges in making evidence-based recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines due to the rapidly evolving situation with new vaccine products available in a short time period and limited data on vaccine effectiveness. The authors reviewed the process used by Serbia's NITAG, which is called the Serbian Expert Committee on Immunization, to develop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations during the pandemic. The article examines the challenges and successes faced by the committee. Serbia's expert committee used the best available evidence to develop over forty recommendations on all aspects of COVID-19 vaccination. These expert committee recommendations facilitated the early procurement and successful roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines, guidance for vaccination of individuals at the highest risk, and high COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country. The availability of five COVID-19 vaccines in Serbia was an advantage for the successful roll-out but posed challenges for the expert committee. Serbia's expert committee plans to use the experience and best practices developed during the pandemic to improve and expand its work moving forward.

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COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesHumansImmunizationPandemicsSerbiaVaccinationCOVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19 vaccinationevidence-based recommendationsimmunizationNational Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG)Serbia

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PMID36466511
PMCPMC9713902
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