Vector Control Advisory Group
Independent evaluation of the public health value of innovative new tools, technologies and approaches for vector control is needed to enable WHO to provide evidence-based advice to Member States on whether their deployment is justified. This is essential to ensure that scarce resources available for disease control are used to maximum impact. In order to assist WHO in developing public health policy on new tools, the Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) assesses the public health value of new interventions and provides guidance on developing the evidence base required to inform such assessments.
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Overview of interventions under VCAG review

 

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The WHO evaluation process for new interventions

This video provides a high-level overview of the WHO vector control evaluation process to evaluate new tools, strategies and approaches that combat vector-borne diseases, and the evidence that underpins an intervention’s safety, quality, entomological efficacy and public health value. It describes how a new tool enters the process, what pathway(s) the intervention must take as part of its evaluation, and the anticipated outcome of the respective pathways.

 

New tools, technologies and approaches

This overview provides non-experts with an introduction to the rapidly evolving field of new interventions for vector control which have been submitted to WHO for evaluation.

Summary of new interventions for vector control

Operational procedures

All entities seeking WHO prequalification of vector control tools, technologies and approaches for public health are invited to submit a “Request for Determination of Pathway” form to pqvectorcontrol@who.int. WHO will use this form to determine the WHO evaluation pathway. For tools, technologies and approaches not covered by WHO policy recommendations, the applicant will then be contacted by the VCAG secretariat.

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