Period: May 2021 – September 2021

Work team: Adolfo Rubinstein, Andrés Pichón-Riviere, Federico Augustovski, Alejandro López Osornio, Analía López, Ariel Bardach, Adrian Santoro, Cintia Cejas, Maisa Havela.

Objective:

The Project aimed to adapt the Preparedness and Response Model of Health Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean developed by the CIIPS and the Department of Health Technology Assessment and Health Economics, to answer new questions about the different strategies of vaccination raised by the WHO Strategic Advisory Group on Immunization (SAGE Group).

Summary: 

Based on the Preparedness and Response Model of Health Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, developed during 2020 with the support of the IDB, and which seeks to estimate the expansion of COVID19 according to the level of preparation and response of health systems. of LAC, this project sought to answer the following questions:
1) how to advance the prioritization of vaccination groups, as the supply of vaccines increased, and the use of hospital capacity in different age groups.
2) how to achieve an optimal combination of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions
3) the extent to which vaccination could allow non-pharmaceutical interventions to be discontinued in LAC.

Financing: World Health Organization.