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

2018; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 24; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid2409.171427

1080-6059

Massinissa Si Mehand, Piers Millett, Farah Al‐Shorbaji, Cathy Roth, Marie Paule Kiény, Bernadette Murgue,

Delphi Technique in Research

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.