1067Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccines: Strategic Priority Setting to Support Vaccine Development

1067Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccines: Strategic Priority Setting to Support Vaccine Development

A priority-setting aid for new vaccine candidates.

Charles Phelps, Guruprasad Madhavan, Kinpritma Sangha, Rino Rappuoli, Rita R. Colwell, Rose Marie Martinez, Patrick Kelley, and Lonnie King Departments of Economics and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627; Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20001; Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, 53100 Siena, Italy; Center for Bioinformatics an...

A Multi-attribute Approach for Setting Pediatric Vaccine Stockpile Levels

Routine immunization is the most effective public health strategy to prevent the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases. An important factor impacting such effectiveness is the availability of a stable vaccine supply. Vaccine supply interruptions are likely and can prevent children from receiving a full course of vaccinations and hence, increase the risk of disease outbreaks. In the Unite...

Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question?; Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health”

In their recent editorial, Baltussen and colleagues provide a concise summary of the prevailing discourse on priority-setting in health policy. Their perspective is entirely consistent with current practice, yet they unintentionally demonstrate the narrowness and moral precariousness of that discourse and practice. I respond with demonstrations of the importance of ‘interrogating scarcity’ in a...

A Decision Support Tool to Support Innovative and Strategic Processes

In recent years a growing number of companies modified their innovation process. Especially after the recent financial downturn, companies are looking for much more efficient and creative business processes. The aim of the presented paper is to present a decision support tool or in other words a software system for the application of the AHP method to support innovative and strategic process. F...