Two External Scientific Advisory Committees (ESACs) provide specialist technical advice to the management teams on the product and information systems portfolios during the periodic reviews of the projects. The Public Health Products ESAC provides advice to the commercially orientated insecticide-based projects in the PHP projects group. The Information Systems ESAC provides advice to the data management, monitoring and dissemination projects in the Interventions Consortium.
The ESACs evaluate all project outputs against four major indicators:
- Will the products be used to reduce vector borne disease transmission and where do they fit into current activities?
- Will the product be bought for, purchased or accepted by disease endemic countries in the developing world to help them reduce disease transmission?
- Is there a credible regulatory pathway for the products and are the outputs in compliance with this?
- Can the products be sensibly produced in a format that facilitates global access to this technology?
Membership of the ESACs is through nomination of candidates (external to any partner institution) with the required expertise and consensual discussion and agreement between the IVCC partner institutions.
The ESACs meet formally a minimum of twice a year. The IVCC also has the ability to call on advice from members of the ESAC in an ad hoc capacity.