Disease Control Priorities Project

The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is an ongoing project that aims to determine priorities for disease control across the world, particularly in low-income countries.[1] The project is most well known for the Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries Report (2nd Edition) (often abbreviated as DCP2), a 1400-page report published by more than 350 specialists around the world with the goal of providing policy recommendations to reduce global disease burdens.[2] The report is in English, but translations for some of the chapters to Arabic, Chinese, French, and Spanish are available. The report has been released under a Creative Commons attribution license (CC-BY). and a copy of the DCP2 report can be downloaded from the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository.[3] The full text of the report can also be read online on the National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Institutes of Health) website.[4]

The Disease Control Priorities Project is a joint enterprise of a number of groups,[5] including the World Bank, the Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health), World Health Organization, Population Reference Bureau, and Gates Foundation.[6]

Reception

Charity evaluator GiveWell published a blog post in September 2011 cataloguing what they perceived to be errors in the cost-effectiveness estimates for deworming in the DCP2 report. GiveWell asserted that the error caused the cost per DALY averted to be under-stated by a factor of 100: instead of a quoted figure of about $3.36-6.92 per DALY, the actual figure based on the calculations used should have been $336–692 per DALY.[7] GiveWell's blog post was picked up by statistician Andrew Gelman on his personal blog[8] as well as by others.[9][10] GiveWell also did a follow-up post arguing against over-investment in cost-effectiveness estimates.[11]

Giving What We Can, an effective giving advocacy group and charity evaluator, lists the DCP2 report as one of its main sources in evaulating the cost-effectiveness of health-related interventions in low-income countries.[12] In late 2012, Giving What We Can published a two-post series discussing the effectiveness and impact of the Disease Control Priorities Project and the DCP2 report in particular.[13][14]

DCP3

The third edition of the Disease Control Priorities Report, commonly referred to as DCP3, is under preparation and is expected to be published over the time period 2014-2016. It has separate volumes. The first and summary volume will be published in 2016. Separate volumes on cancer and surgery will be published earlier. Toby Ord of Giving What We Can is on the board.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About DCPP". Disease Control Priorities Project. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  2. ↑ "Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)". Disease Control Priorities Project. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  3. ↑ "Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Second Edition". Disease Control Priorities Project (mirrored on the World Bank website). Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  4. ↑ "Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition". Disease Control Priorities Project (mirrored on the NCBI website). Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  5. ↑ "Partner organizations". Disease Control Priorities Project. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  6. ↑ "New Initiative Will Assess Disease Control Priorities In Developing Countries". Gates Foundation. 2002-09-03. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  7. ↑ Berger, Alexander (2011-09-29). "Errors in DCP2 cost-effectiveness estimate for deworming". GiveWell. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  8. ↑ Gelman, Andrew (2011-10-08). "GiveWell sez: Cost-effectiveness of de-worming was overstated by a factor of 100 (!) due to a series of sloppy calculations". Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  9. ↑ Keller, Brett (2011-11-02). "Off by a factor of 100". Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  10. ↑ "GiveWell: Overcomplicating research studies can cost lives". Sabermetric Research. 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  11. ↑ Karnofsky, Holden (2011-11-04). "Some Considerations Against More Investment in Cost-Effectiveness Estimates". GiveWell. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  12. ↑ "Our sources". Giving What We Can. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  13. ↑ Peyton Jones, Michael (2012-10-27). "Estimating the Effectiveness of DCP2". Giving What We Can. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  14. ↑ Peyton Jones, Michael (2012-11-01). "Estimating the Effectiveness of DCP2 - Post 2". Giving What We Can. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
  15. ↑ Hutchinson, Michelle (May 13, 2014). "Toby Ord and DCP3". Giving What We Can. Retrieved May 14, 2014.

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