Ep. 56: mod4PH Research Highlights - NACI Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Vaccination programs in Canada

Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling concepts and research for public health.

Today, we will be speaking to Man Wah Yeung and Dr Beate Sander about the recently published Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programs in Canada, produced by the National Advisory Committee on Immunizations, or NACI. Man Wah is a Senior Health Economist at the Public Health Agency of Canada and Beate is a Canadian Research Chair in Economics of Infectious Diseases, Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, and a Professor of at the University of Toronto. Man Wah and Beate are two of many experts who have worked together to create these guidelines on how to conduct economic evaluations of public health intervention strategies.

This episode will provide an overview of the NACI Health Economics Guidelines, and how they can be used to inform best practices and promote standardized and high-quality evidence for public health decision making.