CTSI BERD Webinar: 'From Vaccine Coverage to Vaccine Impact'

Vaccination is among the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions. A recent analysis estimated that the World Health Organization’s Expanded Program on Immunization has prevented 153 million deaths over 50 years. To arrive at this number requires estimating three challenging quantities:

1. The coverage of vaccination.
2. The burden of disease that occurred.
3. The burden of disease that would have occurred in the absence of vaccination.

Matt Ferrari, professor of biology and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, will present examples of work he has developed over the last 20 years to estimate each of these quantities in the context of measles and rubella.

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The Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Recent Topics in Research Methods seminar series is held during the academic year. Lectures on fundamental research methods are given in the fall semester, with more advanced topics presented in the spring semester. Statisticians and methodologists from multiple Penn State departments present these seminars.