Report of the Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (‎SAGE)‎, 11-12 June 2000

Overview

Background

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE), the body set up in 1999 to provide guidance to the WHO Department of Vaccines and Biologicals (V&B), held its second annual meeting on 11 and 12 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Meeting agenda

Over the two-day meeting, SAGE heard presentations, and deliberated, on V&B’s three priority projects – polio eradication, immunization safety and accelerated vaccine introduction. A second session was devoted to the V&B budget for the 2000-2001 biennium. Strengthening immunization services, under consideration as a V&B priority project, was the topic of the third session. The fourth and final session focused on The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).