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 Mehand
, Piers Millett, Farah Al-Shorbaji, Cathy Roth, Marie Paule Kieny, and Bernadette Murgue
, Piers Millett, Farah Al-Shorbaji, Cathy Roth, Marie Paule Kieny, and Bernadette Murgue
Figure 1
Figure 1. Example screenshot of tool developed in R Shiny (https://shiny.rstudio.com) using the slide bar function to compare candidate diseases for each criteria and subcriteria considered in the development of the World Health Organization R&D Blueprint to prioritize emerging infectious diseases in need of research and development. Experts were requested to compare candidate diseases to each other for each criteria, placing them in ranked order according to their knowledge. The World Health Organization Secretariat explained the meaning of the scale (0–10) to the experts before the survey. Asterisks indicate that an answer is required for each disease.
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