Saving lives efficiently across sectors: the need for a Congressional cost-effectiveness committee

Affiliations

¹ Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
³ National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Center for Health and Biosciences, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: alison.galvani@yale.edu.

Review

Meagan C Fitzpatrick et al. Lancet. 2017.

. 2017 Nov 25;390(10110):2410-2412.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31440-X. Epub 2017 Jun 29.

¹ Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
³ National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Center for Health and Biosciences, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: alison.galvani@yale.edu.

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