The aim of this report is to identify and summarise current practices/frameworks established by NITAGs (or expert groups if no NITAG is in place) involved in the development of national vaccination recommendations in EU/EEA Member States. The rationale was to gain a better understanding of the different decision-making processes in each country and explore the potential for synergy and resource sharing between European NITAGs/expert groups, while also identifying potential barriers and limits to collaboration.
The findings of this report are supplemented by results from a systematic literature review on methodologies/ frameworks used by WHO SAGE (Strategic Advisory Group of Experts) and a number of NITAGs in Europe and North America.
Information collected by this survey is intended to inform a ‘roadmap for improving data, methodology and resource sharing between NITAGs in Europe’, which, if requested by ECDC, will be developed within the VENICE III project.
Specific objectives of this document are:
- to collect additional basic characteristics from NITAGs/expert groups in EU/EEA Member States, building on information which was collected during the previous NITAG survey in 2013;
- to explore in more detail current practices and, if applicable, framework characteristics of EU/EEA Member States’ NITAGs/expert groups;
- to explore the opinions of NITAGs/expert groups on the potential of, or limitations to, collaboration and identify those specific areas within the recommendation process; and
- to conduct a systematic literature review on publications that describe current NITAG methodologies and/frameworks for decision-making processes for vaccine recommendations in Europe, North America and for WHO SAGE.
- ECDC
- Europe
