Field-epidemiology training: the business case
Outbreak detection depends on trained field epidemiologists, and training them is expensive enough that scale-up decisions get made on intuition. This project built the evidence for one: a discrete choice experiment on what makes a training programme attractive to the people who would enrol, combined with a cost model for what different scale-up paths would take.
The two halves matter together. A programme that is cheap per graduate but that nobody wants to join does not produce graduates. The choice experiment prices the programme features that drive enrolment; the cost model prices delivering them.
The result is STEPS, which lets a planner change the scale-up assumptions and see the consequences, rather than reading a single recommended scenario.
Developed with the World Bank.
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