Global Health Case Studies

Consensus Building

For The World Bank, Applied Strategies led an effort to model and analyze the financial and risk implications of Advance Market Commitments (AMC), a proposed new mechanism for creating an economically attractive low-income country market for vaccine suppliers. The objective of this mechanism is to accelerate the availability of vaccines to these regions of the world, thereby saving the lives of millions of children annually.

This World Bank and Global Alliance for Vaccines & Immunization (GAVI) sponsored project was at the request of the G8 and required achieving model design and analysis results buy-in by a diverse community of stakeholders, including the G8 Finance Ministers, World Bank, GAVI, Center for Global Development, multinational and emerging vaccine suppliers, government finance ministries, and vaccine focused public-private partnerships including: Rotavirus Vaccine Program, Pneumococcal Vaccine Program (PneumoADIP), Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Program, TB Vaccine Program, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.

Applied Strategies analytical work and its financial implications and risk model (AMC-FIRM) was instrumental in convincing government donors to raise $1.5B to support a pilot AMC for pneumococcal vaccines and we will soon be embarking on an effort to interview major vaccine suppliers around the world to understand their AMC-related needs and concerns and to assess their level of commitment to this new funding mechanism.

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