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Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
Online Report

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

Massinissa Si MehandComments to Author , Piers Millett, Farah Al-Shorbaji, Cathy Roth, Marie Paule Kieny, and Bernadette Murgue
Author affiliations: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (M. Si Mehand, P. Millett, F. Al-Shorbaji, M.P. Kieny, B. Murgue); Department for International Development, London, UK (C. Roth)

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Figure 3

Multicriteria scores of diseases considered in the 2017 prioritization exercise for the development of the World Health Organization R&D Blueprint to prioritize emerging infectious diseases in need of research and development. A) Disease final ranking using the geometric average of the comparison matrices. B) Disease final ranking using the arithmetic average of the raw data. Error bars correspond to SD, indicating disagreement among experts. C) Disease final ranking using the SMART Vaccines

Figure 3. Multicriteria scores of diseases considered in the 2017 prioritization exercise for the development of the World Health Organization R&D Blueprint to prioritize emerging infectious diseases in need of research and development. A) Disease final ranking using the geometric average of the comparison matrices. B) Disease final ranking using the arithmetic average of the raw data. Error bars correspond to SD, indicating disagreement among experts. C) Disease final ranking using the SMART Vaccines prioritization tool (56). P1, Ebola virus infection; P2, Marburg virus infection; P3, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus infection; P4, severe acute respiratory syndrome; P5, Lassa virus infection; P6, Nipah virus infection; P7, Rift Valley fever; P8, Zika virus infection; P9, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever; P10, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; P11, South American hemorrhagic fever; P12, plague; P13, hantavirus infection.

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