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. They provide specialist technical advice to the management teams on the product portfolio during the periodic reviews of the projects. ESAC1 provides advice to the commercially orientated insecticide-based projects in the Public Health Products (PHP) projects group. ESAC2 provides advice to the data management, monitoring and dissemination projects in the Information Systems (IS) project group.
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.