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WHAT IS AN INDEPENDENT NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINE ADVISORY COMMITTEE? |
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Role: To advise National governments on
• Immunization policy and strategies (EPI and outside EPI)
• Introduction of new vaccines and immunization technologies
• Maintaining a high routine immunization coverage
• Vaccine quality and safety
• Promoting national vaccine security in procurement
• Guiding national authorities on the public health needs for new and emerging vaccine-preventable diseases.
Composition
• National experts
- Ensuring a proper dissemination
- Ensuring sustainability
- Avoiding direct lobbying from external interest groups
- Representing a broad range of disciplines: Senior pediatricians, epidemiologists, public health experts, health economists, vaccinology experts, social scientists etc.
• Ex-officio members and liaison members
- Ministry of Health, WHO, UNICEF, NGOs...
- Attend committee meetings, express the views of the department they represent but do not take part in the final decision making process
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WHAT DOES INDEPENDENT EXPERTISE MEAN? |
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• Experts should provide independent expertise
- Doesn’t mean “independent experts” as most of national experts are paid directly or indirectly by the government
• All members should declare conflicts of interest related to the subject of each meeting,
- The main goals are transparency and evidence based decision
- Many experts may have been in contact with external interest groups, in this case they will participate to the meetings but they will not participate to the establishment of the recommendations
- Recommendations are made public to reinforce transparency and accountability of experts
• Experts should respond to the needs of National Ministry of Health and other groups within the country that implement immunization. |
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WHAT WILL AN INDEPENDENT NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINE ADVISORY COMMITTEE BRING TO A COUNTRY? |
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• A well balanced and institutionalized group helps national governments to resist pressure from external interest groups.
• Evidence based decision making processes
• Adoption of policies based on priorities relevant to national contexts
• Empowerment of the government and national immunization programs
• Reinforcing the credibility of the proposed national vaccine and immunization policies
• Enhancement the ability to secure government or donor funding
• Integration of various vaccine specific task forces or ad hoc committees that exist currently in some countries (Polio, Malaria, Measles...)
• Encourage a more comprehensive and integrated approach that considers the health not only of young children but other vulnerable populations (e.g., school children, workers, pregnant women, and the elderly).
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WHAT WILL THE SIVAC INITIATIVE DO? |
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To assist in the establishment or strengthening of functional, sustainable Independent Immunization and Vaccine Advisory Committees in GAVI-eligible and middle income countries in making recommendations for program improvements and vaccine introductions through technical assistance, training, development of tools and information sharing. |
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