STEPS: FETP scale-up decision aid
Plan the scale-up of Field Epidemiology Training Programmes in India under budget constraints.
Scaling a training programme means committing money years before the graduates appear, and balancing three things that move against each other: cost, stakeholder endorsement, and health benefit.
STEPS puts them in one place. It runs on a mixed-logit preference model estimated from a discrete choice experiment with stakeholders, combined with cost templates and epidemiological multipliers. Change the scale-up assumptions and it returns endorsement estimates, perceived programme value, cost per cohort, a national simulation, and scenario exports.
For policymakers and partners planning FETP scale-up in India.
Developed at the University of Newcastle in partnership with the World Bank. See the project.