2023 IHEA congress

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The Immunization Economics Special Interest Group (SIG) kicked off the 15th IHEA World Congress on Health Economics by organizing a two-day pre-congress session on July 8-9, 2023, attended by over 150 participants from 42 countries. The session brought together early-career to seasoned researchers from academic institutions, NGOs, and multinational organizations to exchange knowledge on the latest research methods and approaches in immunization costing, financing, economics, and decision-making. Look back at the presentations and posters below.

Meeting report

This includes attendee information, the agenda, takeaways, and photos

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Presentations

View the slides and recordings from the pre-congress sessions

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Posters

View all 27 posters from the poster session

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Photos

Browse images from the two days of the pre-congress

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Main congress presentations & posters

You can view immunization economics-related presentations and posters from the main IHEA congress using the button below.

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Research priorities

The following research priorities emerged from presentations and discussions at the pre-congress:

  • The cost, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency of reaching zero dose children in different contexts, including targeted local interventions, campaigns, but also strengthening the PHC system.
  • Integration of services, even beyond health, as opposed to the incremental cost of adding immunization services, and lessons learned from the C19 pandemic around this.
  • Cost, cost-effectiveness, and investment cases of new vaccines will remain necessary as they enter the market or as their recommended schedules change.
  • The rate of return of investing in stockpiles of vaccines (such as those of yellow fever and cholera vaccines, Ebola, etc.).
  • Increased focus on developing economic evidence for subnational level stakeholders and implementers.
  • Evidence around budget execution and practical experiences at national and subnational levels, and identifying best practices in improving the use of evidence in planning, budgeting, and decision-making.