Immunization Economics SIG

The Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC) is the most comprehensive, standardized global evidence on the cost of delivering vaccines, covering 317 unit costs from 68 studies published between 2005 and early 2019. The IDCC supports global and country immunization stakeholders in answering the question: “What are the unit costs of vaccine delivery across different low and […]

Thank you to everyone who joined and contributed to the Immunization Economics pre-congress event at IHEA 2023, held on 8-9 July 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa. Over the two days we welcomed over 150 attendees from 42 countries and enjoyed rich discussions on the latest evidence, methods and approaches in immunization costing, financing, economics,

BACKGROUND The global community has set ambitious goals to look beyond national immunization coverage outcomes and prioritize communities that have been left behind from the advances made over the last decades. Reaching so-called zero-dose children, those that have missed out on all routine vaccines1, is a central pillar of both WHO’s Immunization Agenda 2030 and

We recently sat down with Dr. Ijeoma Edoka, Health Economist at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, to learn about her career in immunization economics. What projects have you been working on? I work on a number of projects, mostly to do with costing and