Evolution of global polio eradication strategies: targets, vaccines, and supplemental immunization activities (SIAs)

KM Thompson, K Badizadegan - Expert Review of Vaccines, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Despite multiple revisions of targets and timelines in polio eradication plans
since 1988, including changes in supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) that increase …

Oral polio vaccine stockpile modeling: insights from recent experience

KM Thompson, DA Kalkowska… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Achieving polio eradication requires ensuring the delivery of sufficient supplies
of the right vaccines to the right places at the right times. Despite large global markets …

Worst‐case scenarios: Modeling uncontrolled type 2 polio transmission

DA Kalkowska, E Wiesen, SGF Wassilak… - Risk …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In May 2016, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) coordinated the
cessation of all use of type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV2), except for emergency outbreak …

Health Economic Analysis of Antiviral Drugs in the Global Polio Eradication Endgame

K Badizadegan, DA Kalkowska… - Medical Decision …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Polio antiviral drugs (PAVDs) may provide a critical tool in the eradication
endgame by stopping poliovirus infections in immunodeficient individuals who may not clear …

Trade-offs of different poliovirus vaccine options for outbreak response in the United States and other countries that only use inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) in …

KM Thompson, DA Kalkowska, SE Kidd, CC Burns… - Vaccine, 2024 - Elsevier
Delays in achieving polio eradication have led to ongoing risks of poliovirus importations
that may cause outbreaks in polio-free countries. Because of the low, but non-zero risk of …

Review of Poliovirus Transmission and Economic Modeling to Support Global Polio Eradication: 2020–2024

KM Thompson, K Badizadegan - Pathogens, 2024 - mdpi.com
Continued investment in the development and application of mathematical models of
poliovirus transmission, economics, and risks leads to their use in support of polio endgame …