TY - JOUR AU - Mehand, Massinissa Si AU - Millett, Piers AU - Al-Shorbaji, Farah AU - Roth, Cathy AU - Kieny, Marie Paule AU - Murgue, Bernadette T1 - World Health Organization Methodology to Prioritize Emerging Infectious Diseases in Need of Research and Development T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 9 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The World Health Organization R&D Blueprint aims to accelerate the availability of medical technologies during epidemics by focusing on a list of prioritized emerging diseases for which medical countermeasures are insufficient or nonexistent. The prioritization process has 3 components: a Delphi process to narrow down a list of potential priority diseases, a multicriteria decision analysis to rank the short list of diseases, and a final Delphi round to arrive at a final list of 10 diseases. A group of international experts applied this process in January 2017, resulting in a list of 10 priority diseases. The robustness of the list was tested by performing a sensitivity analysis. The new process corrected major shortcomings in the pre–R&D Blueprint approach to disease prioritization and increased confidence in the results. KW - severe emerging infectious diseases KW - prioritization KW - multicriteria decision analysis KW - expert opinion KW - multidisciplinary method KW - World Health Organization KW - R&D Blueprint KW - epidemics KW - Ebola virus KW - Marburg virus infection KW - Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome KW - Lassa virus KW - Nipah virus KW - Rift Valley fever KW - Zika virus KW - Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever KW - severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome KW - South American hemorrhagic fever KW - plague KW - hantavirus KW - viruses KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2409.171427 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/9/17-1427_article ER - End of Reference