Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programs in Canada

Introduction

This webinar will provide an overview of the new Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programs in Canada produced by the National Advisory Committee on Immunizations (NACI).

Webinar presented by the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease (NCCID) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).

Synopsis

The focus of this presentation will be on conducting and reporting of model-based economic evaluations of vaccination programs in Canada.

The presentation was followed by a Question and Answer session. Participants were also encouraged to submit questions of interest prior to the webinar when registering on Eventbrite.

Resources

Time & Date

October 17th, 2023

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Moderator: Dr. Wendy Xie, Project Manager, NCCID

Speakers

Dr. Beate Sander, RN, MBA, MEcDev, PhD

Beate Sander holds a Canada Research Chair in Economics of Infectious Diseases, is a Senior Scientist of the Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) collaborative at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), as well as Senior Scientist & Director, Population Health Economics Research (PHER), University Health Network and Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto. She holds appointments as Adjunct Scientist at ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), and Public Health Ontario (PHO).

Man Wah Yeung, MSc

Man Wah is a senior health economist at the Public Health Agency of Canada. Prior to this role, she had worked at different health technology assessment agencies and public health agencies including Health Quality Ontario (now, Ontario Health), CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health), and Public Health Ontario.