WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (ESFT)

Date published
19 Apr 2020
Type
Websites
Keywords
Epidemics & pandemics, Innovation, Targeting, Identification and Profiling

To gauge the need for supplies/equipment and health work force requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has developed a suite of complimentary surge calculators -- one for supplies and two for health workforce.  All tools use the same base epidemiologic assumptions and classify health workforce using standardized International Labor Organization International Standard Classification of Occupations codes, but their outputs are intentionally different due to their primary focus.