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ABSTRACT
Background: National immunization program staf have limited prior training in economics,
despite a need to make difcult economic choices in fnancing and operating their
programs. Teaching Vaccine Economics Everywhere (TVEE) is an international consortium
of 4 universities that provides vaccine economics and fnancing training to mid-career
immunization program managers and policy-makers in low- and middle-income countries.
Since 2017, TVEE has provided short training workshops at four regional hubs using a
curriculum developed using real data and scenarios tailored to region-specifc needs. The
study aims to evaluate program impact of the frst 2 years.
Methods: The impact of the program was evaluated based on the Kirkpatrick Model.
The survey was developed and distributed using Qualtrics to all participants from all
J Glob Health Sci. 2019 Dec;1(2):e48
https://doi.org/10.35500/jghs.2019.1.e48
pISSN 2671-6925·eISSN 2671-6933
Original Article
Tania Banerjee,
1
Shreena Malaviya ,
2
Yira Natalia Alfonso ,
2
Patrick Wedlock ,
3,4
George Pariyo ,
5
Omrana Pasha ,
2
Dagna Constenla ,
5
Logan Brenzel ,
6
Ijeoma Edoka ,
7
Karen Hofman ,
7
Anthony Kinghorn ,
7,8
Chrispus Mayora ,
9
Susmita Chatterjee ,
10
Prahlad Rai Sodani,
11
Shehla Zaidi ,
12,13
Maryam Huda ,
12
Farina Abrejo ,
12
William Padula ,
14
David Bishai
2
1
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
2
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
3
HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, Baltimore, MD, USA
4
Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
5
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD, USA
6
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
7
SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (PRICELESS SA), University of the
Witwatersrand School of Public Health, Johannesburg, South Africa
8
MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit, University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health, Johannesburg,
South Africa
9
Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management (HPPM), School of Public Health, College of
Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
10
George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India
11
Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India
12
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
13
Woman & Child Health Division, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
14
Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics, School of Pharmacy University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Immunization decision-making
capacity building in low- and middle-
income countries through teaching
vaccine economics everywhere:
a program evaluation
Received: Nov 6, 2019
Accepted: Nov 30, 2019
Correspondence to
David Bishai
Department of Population, Family and
Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns
Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore,
MD 21205, USA.
E-mail: dbishai@jhsph.edu
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ORCID iDs
Shreena Malaviya
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3507-8484
Yira Natalia Alfonso
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-4407
Patrick Wedlock
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5949
George Pariyo
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4411-2309
Omrana Pasha
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-3918
Dagna Constenla
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4935-1584
Logan Brenzel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7506-7686
Ijeoma Edoka
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4268-3092
Karen Hofman
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9512-7220
Anthony Kinghorn
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8632-6949
https://e-jghs.org