Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security - By Gregory Koblentz: Book Reviews
In: Review of Policy Research, Volume 27, Issue 5, p. 661-662
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In: Review of Policy Research, Volume 27, Issue 5, p. 661-662
In: International security, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 123-148
ISSN: 1531-4804
In: International security, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 123-148
ISSN: 0162-2889
World Affairs Online
In: International security, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 123-148
ISSN: 0162-2889
In: NBER Working Paper No. w32831
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In: Health security, Volume 21, Issue 4, p. 272-279
ISSN: 2326-5108
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was established in 2016 in response to the West African Ebola epidemic. The vision for CEPI is to develop vaccines to prevent future emerging infectious disease outbreaks from becoming humanitarian crises. Leaders from governments, foundations, industry, and civil society convened earlier that year to formulate strategic objectives to support CEPI's first business plan. We demonstrate how decision analysis can support a rational and transparent approach to strategy formulation that accounts for and ranks the preferences of multiple stakeholders in an international coalition setting. We use value-focused thinking to identify and structure objectives and we combine this with an explorative discrete-choice experiment to elicit preferences between objectives. Our findings suggest that decision-analytic methodologies can rationalize strategic objective setting in a highly complex global health research and development planning context characterized by strong stakeholder interests and conflicting priorities. ; publishedVersion ; © 2019 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work, but you must attribute this work as "INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics.
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