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SUMMARY:Seroprevalence-based vaccination strategies: A combined transmissio
 n and operational modeling approach.
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sarang Deo (Indian School of Business)\n\nAbstract: \n
 Many low- and middle-income countries face limited supply of vaccines. In 
 such situations it is imperative to devise vaccination rollout strategies 
 that maximize the cost-effectiveness of these limited vaccine stocks. For 
 instance\, it may seem that selectively targeting regions with lower serop
 revalence (e.g.\, rural areas) may be more effective in protecting more su
 sceptible individuals than regions with higher seroprevalence (e.g.\, urba
 n areas) that have fewer susceptible individuals. However\, these areas ma
 y also have different reproduction rates which are the core drivers of dif
 ferent seroprevalence. Similarly\, cost of supplying vaccines to these reg
 ions may be different. As a result\, it is not obvious if\, and when\, suc
 h seroprevalence driven strategies may be more effective than uniform vacc
 ine rollout. We develop a modeling framework that combines transmission mo
 deling with supply chain modeling to answer this question and illustrate i
 ts utility using data on COVID-19 pandemic for the state of Punjab.\n\nYou
 Tube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3i1I-8lB1Q\n \n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/1171
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20211116T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20211116T170000
LOCATION:Via Zoom (please write to supriya.pottipati@tifr.res.in for zoom l
 ink)
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