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Are Discount Rates Used in UK Vaccine Economic Evaluations Jeopardising Investment in Immunisation Programmes?
4 August 2020
…critical factor for vaccines due to the intertemporal nature of their impact. As such, this may unduly restrict adoption decisions for vaccines based on cost effectiveness, and potentially jeopardise appropriate…
Prevention in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: Promise, limits, and the path forward
17 September 2025
…resource constraints, and behavioural barriers is exemplified in prevention plans surrounding vaccination. The goal Vaccines alone don’t save lives – vaccination does. Although we have safe and effective vaccines available…
Adult vaccination programmes deliver socio-economic benefits up to 19 times initial investment, according to new report
18 April 2024
…a first-of-its-kind analysis of adult immunisation programmes by the Office of Health Economics (OHE) and commissioned by IFPMA (1), looked at four adult vaccines across ten countries where they are…
Financing and Scaling Innovation for the COVID Fight: A Closer Look at Demand-Side Incentives for a Vaccine
1 April 2020
…commercial risk. Vaccines that make it to market may be inferior to others that potentially could have been developed because of push funders ‘picking winners’ from the early prospects, before…
The 2020 OHE Annual Lecture Explores the Question: How Should the World Pay for a COVID-19 Vaccine?
25 June 2020
…to get leading vaccine candidates through clinical trials, there are two further major challenges – manufacturing and delivering COVID-19 vaccines, and ensuring that more candidates are able to enter clinical…
Analysing Global Immunisation Expenditure
15 April 2025
…vaccines to susceptible populations to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Key takeaways On average, the countries in focus spend 0.08% of their GDP on immunisation, and less than 1%…
Prevention pays off – so why aren’t we doing more of it?
5 June 2025
…on adult immunisation in mostly high and middle income shows that adult vaccines can return up to 19 times their initial investment to society, when their significant benefits beyond the…
How Should the World Pay for a COVID-19 Vaccine?
31 July 2020
…ago with a number of vaccines now already progressing through clinical trials, and over a hundred candidates in pre-clinical development. Yet how successful vaccines are to be financed and paid…
The broader economic benefits of COVID-19 vaccination
13 October 2025
…in COVID-19 vaccines is not just a health need, it’s an economic imperative. Vaccines help protect societies and reduce pressure on healthcare systems, while supporting economic stability by keeping people…