Public payers around the world are increasingly using cost-effectiveness thresholds (CETs)
to assess the value-for-money of an intervention and make coverage decisions. However …

Objectives Disease transmission models are used in impact assessment and economic
evaluations of infectious disease prevention and treatment strategies, prominently so in the …

Traditional funding mechanisms for healthcare projects involve ranking the projects and
awarding funds based on their cost to benefit ratio. An alternative funding mechanism based …

Summary Background The HPTN 071 (PopART) trial showed that a combination HIV
prevention package including universal HIV testing and treatment (UTT) reduced population …

Policymakers often rely on impact and cost-effectiveness evaluations to inform decisions
about the introduction of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs); …

The best recognised purpose of disease surveillance is the (early) detection of epidemics
and other health threats. New diagnostic tools such as unbiased and targeted next …

The pricing of medicines and health products ranks among the most hotly debated topics in
health policy, generating controversy in richer and poorer markets alike. Creating the right …

Bilevel optimization deals with nested problems in which a leader takes the first decision to
minimize their objective function while accounting for a follower's best-response reaction …

Countries which are introducing a system of Universal health coverage have to make a
number of key tradeoffs, of which one is the tradeoff between the level of coverage and the …

Economic evaluations are increasingly popular, both in the field of global health as well as
in purely domestic settings. However, the proliferation and use of economic evaluations by …