Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Sci Transl Med. 2019 Jul 3;11(499). doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aat0360.
Public health emergencies, such as an Ebola disease outbreak, provide a complex and challenging environment for the evaluation of candidate vaccines. Here, we outline the need for flexible and responsive vaccine trial designs to be used in public health emergencies, and we summarize recommendations for their use in this setting.
公共卫生突发事件,如埃博拉疫情爆发,为候选疫苗的评估提供了一个复杂而具有挑战性的环境。在这里,我们概述了在公共卫生突发事件中灵活和响应性疫苗试验设计的必要性,并总结了在这种情况下使用这些设计的建议。