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Working Group Member Selection and Process
Member selection
Working Group Members:
- can be self-selected volunteers with relevant expertise.
- can be volunteers actively selected by the steering committee or by other working group members according to relevant expertise.
- may participate in more than one working group at the same time.
The Working Group Coordinators:
- work with the General Coordinators to ascertain that the work within the working groups is being carried out in accordance with the policies and process of the Collaboration.
- see that the objectives of the working groups are met within set time lines.
- are selected by the Brighton Collaboration General Coordinators.
Working Group Team Leaders serve as chairs of their respective working group.
Composition
Working groups consist of multidisciplinary teams with a range of expertise including immunization safety, epidemiology, public health, and the respective clinic specialty.
Working group members come from a range of different organizations such as patient care, public health, scientific, pharmaceutical, regulatory and professional organizations as well as from developed and developing countries.
A balance is sought in the expertise and backgrounds of working group members to address the respective aspects of development and future implementation of case definitions.
Should necessary expertise be underrepresented in existing working groups, efforts will be made to recruit additional members.
Group Process
Working groups:
- will respect the Brighton Collaboration principles.
- will appoint a team leader and may be guided in the selection by the Steering Committee.
- will work via conference call and e-mail. In person meetings may be arranged pending funding availability.
- will work with the understanding that definitions will remain in the public domain.
- will be abandoned once the work is completed.
The Team Leader is responsible for communicating the progress with the Coordinators.
A coordinating editor will be responsible for maintenance of «Brighton» documents.
Work of Working Groups
With support by Working Group Coordinators, working groups will:
- make an inventory of existing case definitions by review of literature and unpublished definitions,
- assess the results in a brief report and draft an initial definition based upon findings,
- implement a survey (with use of a template provided by the General Coordinators) to the Reference Group, i.e., a larger group of individuals and organizations experienced in vaccine safety,
- revise the initial definition according to comments from the Reference Group,
- test the initial case definitions in existing surveillance systems and vaccine trials, whenever possible, monitor new information derived from implementation and from vaccine trials to periodically update a definition, if necessary.
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