Dr. Weibing Wang from Fudan University presented the evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of vaccines using mathematical modeling. He introduced the motivation for conducting economic evaluations of vaccines and vaccination program, the basic models methods to measure the effectiveness and impact of infectious disease interventions, and the advantages and limitations of different types of evaluation models of infectious disease interventions.
Dr. Hai Fang from Peking University presented the research regarding the economic analysis of introducing Hib vaccine into China’s National Immunization Program. He concluded that it is cost-effective to introduce Hib vaccine into China’s NIP at both national and provincial levels.
One international speaker, Dr. Mark Jit from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), shared different types of models to evaluate the impact of vaccination, including mechanistic and statistical models, dynamic and static models, agent-based and compartmental models.
