The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is part of a global partnership focused on reducing measles burden and interrupting transmission through vaccination.
Project Objectives
- Development of a rigorous, tested, open access forecasting methodology and associated code repository.
- Documentation of the method and software, through some combination of peer-reviewed papers and white papers.
- A landscaping exercise of existing risk assessment tools with performance comparisons over multiple time horizons (3 to 12 months) to the newly developed method.
- Presentations and other scientific communications of the risk assessment framework and its use to global stakeholder groups.
- Leveraging lessons from measles to inform risk assessment for other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Application Timeline and Award Details
Concept proposals will be reviewed by the Foundation and WHO partners starting August 1st, 2023, with groups selected to advance by August 14th, 2023. Awards of at most $500k allocated over 2 years will be distributed starting in Q4 2023.
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