Materials from Immunization Economics’ 2019 iHEA Pre-Congress Session Now Available

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As part of the 2019 iHEA biennial world congress in Basel, Switzerland, the Immunization Economics Special Interest Group (SIG) organized a pre-congress session on July 13-14. The program, which focused on the generation and use of information surrounding immunization costing, financing, and value of vaccination, included:

  1. Featured updates on research findings, methodology, and cases;

  2. Concurrent sessions on economic analysis refresher course and implementation/advocacy workshop;

  3. Panel sessions on effective dissemination and future direction.

Access all materials, presentations, photos, and reports from the Immunization Economics iHEA pre-congress session in Basel, July 13-14, 2019 here.

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