Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of delivering nutrition and health interventions to improve nutrition

This session will describe new tools for assessing cost-effectiveness, present results from nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive cost-effectiveness studies and discuss if and how to compare apples to oranges in the context of cost-effectiveness of interventions for anemia control

Presentations:

• Introduction: Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of delivering nutrition and health interventions to improve nutrition
  Stephen A. Vosti, PhD – Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of an intervention to increase IFA "adherence" in pregnancy in Bangladesh
  Bahman Kashi, PhD – Limestone Analytics / Queen's University
• Strengthening Economic Evaluation of Multisector Nutrition Programs (SEEMS-Nutrition)
  Carol Levin, MS, PhD – Department of Global Health|University of Washington
• The NI MNS Cost- Benefit Tool; A Policy Tool for Deciding Between MMS and IFA
  Dylan D. Walters, PhD – Nutrition International
• Cost-effectiveness of Preventing Malnutrition in Children Under 2 Approach (PM2A) in Burundi
  Jef Leroy – IFPRI
• Cost analysis of Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) delivery models
  David Doledec, MPH – Helen Keller International
• Panel discussion: Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of delivering nutrition and health interventions to improve nutrition
  Stephen A. Vosti, PhD – Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis