FLURESP (SANCO)
Cost-Effectiveness of European Influenza, Human Pandemic Alert,
and Response Strategies

This public health project assessed the cost-effectiveness of 18 public health interventions and strategies against flu outbreaks and pandemic in Europe.

The FLURESP consortium, led by Dr Ariel Beresniak, was composed by key European experts in Flu alert and response strategies as well as in Public Health and Health Economics advanced methodology. The objective of the FLURESP consortium was to redefine main human pandemic scenarios at the European level, describe and cluster possible response strategies and assess these response strategies in the frame of multi-criteria and cost-effectiveness analyses, taking into account lessons from the 2009 pandemic. While human pandemic scenarios and main related responses are well documented, they have never been assessed and ranked using both multi-criteria and cost-effectiveness approaches.

The FLURESP consortium proposes an integrated approach of Decision Making and The European FLURESP guidelines offer new evidence-based cost-effective strategies for the purpose of preparedness and constitutes a premiere at the European and global level. This will allow European public authorities to drastically improve their ability to better address the various categories of threats and can support European member states to select the most appropriate and efficient public response should such need arise.