Fellowship Wrap-Up

Bangkok 2022

Bangkok 2022

Bangkok Takeaways

1. Challenges of using Excel.
2. Difficulties measuring DALYs.
3. Backwards conversion of existing models.
4. Incorporating country-specific and cause-deleted mortality.

5. More Time!

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Mortality Modeling and Backwards Conversion

Mortality Modeling

Modeling DALYS

Despite the prominent role of DALYs in global health policy, scant methodological guidance is available for adapting and/or structuring decision-analytic models for DALY outcomes. This methodological gap has its roots in health economics education, where textbooks and training exercises focus almost exclusively on quality- adjusted life-year (QALY) outcomes—the primary health outcome used for health technology assessments and pol- icy decision making in high-income countries …

Modeling DALYS

… To the extent DALY-specific modeling consid- erations are taught, they are often considered in isolation and without a firm methodological grounding in how one might structure a model to measure DALY outcomes.

Modeling DALYs

Colombia, 2024

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Colombia, 2024

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Istanbul, 2024

1. Initial planning for Fellowship
2. First full integration of Amua, DALY modeling.

Vanderbilt, 2025

1. In-depth review of prior workshops
2. Guest lectures
   • Peter Neumann (Tufts) and Xiaoyan Wang on Global Health CEA Registry
   • Zach Ward on Amua modeling
   • Ankur Pandya on Distributional and Extended Cost Effectiveness Analysis

Modeling DALYs in Amua

Vanderbilt, 2025

3. Advanced search skills
4. In-depth mentorship and collaboration with other fellows
5. Additional developed resources

Vanderbilt, 2025