Virtual Workshop for the Validation of the Vaccine Demand Estimation Model-FMD (VADEMOS) for Ethiopia, Uganda and Zambia
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The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD), under Pillar III of its current workplan, has developed a stochastic simulation model, to estimate the FMD vaccine quantities needed to control the disease in years to come in endemic countries. The first version of the model has been converted to a web-based tool with an interactive user interface.
This allows national veterinary authorities and/or other stakeholders to change input parameter values used in the model to simulate alternative scenarios such as livestock demographics and details of control strategies, resulting in variations in the final vaccine dose number.
The EuFMD is organizing two virtual workshops for two geographical areas of West-Eurasia and East Africa to validate the model and get feedback from national experts to fine-tune the model and to collate viewpoints on further expansion of the model.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
- Describe the aims of the developed decision-support model;
- Describe the main data sources and assumptions used in the model;
- Describe, present, and interpret the intermediate and final results (i.e., total doses of vaccines needed)generated by the model.