PDVAC Executive summary 2020: Update from the Burden of Enteric Diseases working group

Overview

2020 WHO Product Development for Vaccines Advisory Committee (PDVAC) Virtual Consultation 2: Update from the Burden of Enteric Diseases working group: 11 May 2020

This PDVAC session reviewed the outputs of the BoED WG group since the 2018 PDVAC recommendation and discussed the potential expansion of the scope of this group to evaluate current data and methodology to assess morbidity for these pathogens. The BoED WG was convened in November 2018 to assess the differences in the methods used to derive the U5 mortality estimates, increase the understanding of data incorporated into the
models, and increase the transparency and credibility of the estimates.

The objectives for the virtual PDVAC meeting on 11 May 2020 were to:

1. Review the status of workstreams related to improving quantification of the under-five mortality caused by individual enteric pathogens;
2. Discuss the impact of findings and their potential implications for the future under-five mortality estimates;
3. Provide an overview of the proposed expansion of the working group scope to evaluate the data and methodology to quantify the morbidity burden of enteric pathogens.