Strengthening Influenza Vaccination Strategies through Gamified Modelling

Abstract

Poster presentation at the 10th ESWI Influenza Conference, Valência, 2025 Poster in the topic of Mathematical modeling and projections, including limitations, number 520 Seasonal influenza remains a major global public health challenge, causing around 1 billion infections, 3–5 million severe cases, and up to 650,000 deaths every year. Despite WHO and ECDC recommendations, vaccination coverage rates (VCR) across Europe continue to fall below the 75% target. The Let’s Control Flu (LCF) project developed an interactive gamified modelling tool to support evidence-based decision-making on improving influenza vaccination strategies. By simulating the potential impact of public health policies (PHP) on the influenza burden in different countries, the tool enables stakeholders to compare outcomes in different health and socioeconomic indicators by key target populations over a 10 year period. After its initial pilot in Sweden, the model was adapted and validated for Germany and the Czech Republic. This poster presents the main results of these national applications.