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Introduction
Pages 11-16

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... as part of its planning for the future. The committee assembled for that project developed a quantitative model that could be used by decisionmakers to prioritize the development of vaccines against a number of disparate infectious diseases considered significant threats to public health.
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... Because fine details regarding epidemiology, clinical presentation in individuals and within a population, and costs of care are not always readily available for the 30 candidate vaccines considered, the committee necessarily made many assumptions for the data used in the model. The committee assessed the published literature and the opinions of experts in the field, and then the members of the committee used their collective scientific and clinical judgment to estimate values when there was no published consensus.
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... The committee was also asked to exclude vaccine candidates directed against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
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... These policies necessitated excluding from committee membership anyone employed by or with significant financial interest in any vaccine research and development company. In assembling the committee, individuals with expertise in economic modeling, public health, ethics, epidemiology, immunization policy, infectious diseases, vaccinolog,v, immunology and pathology, and clinical medicine were sought.
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... Chapter 7 concludes the report with some observations regarding vaccine research and development. The main body of the report is followed by appendixes that provide and discuss the condition-specific data used in the calculations.
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