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Effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination campaigns in humanitarian settings: A modelling study
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The Brief
- A modelling study published in PLOS Medicine assesses the effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination campaigns in humanitarian settings.
- The study is authored by a multinational team of researchers.
- The source material provided here does not include the study's quantitative findings.
Why it matters
It addresses how pneumococcal vaccination campaigns in crisis settings can be evaluated with models, which is relevant to researchers and planners working on vaccine policy and global health.
Who’s affected
- public health researchers
- vaccination programme planners working in humanitarian settings
- #pneumococcal
- #vaccination
- #humanitarian
- #modelling
- #public health
by Kevin van Zandvoort, Mohamed O. Bobe, Abdirahman I. Hassan, Rachael Cummings, Abdihamid Warsame, Casey L. Pell, Mohamed Ismail Abdi, Saed Ibrahim, Catherine R. McGowan, E. Kim Mulholland, Catherine Satzke, Rosalind M. Eggo, Mohamed Abdi Hergeye, Francesco Checchi, Stefan…
Timeline
Modelling study published in PLOS Medicine
PLOS Medicine
Effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination campaigns in humanitarian settings: A modelling study