TY - JOUR KW - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health KW - Health(social science) KW - General Medicine AU - Lammie PJ AU - Gass KM AU - King J AU - Deming MS AU - Addiss DG AU - Biswas G AU - Ottesen E AU - Henderson R AB - Abstract The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was established with the ambitious goal of eliminating LF as a public health problem. The remarkable success of the GPELF over the past 2 decades in carrying out its principal strategy of scaling up and scaling down mass drug administration has relied first on the development of a rigorous monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework and then the willingness of the World Health Organization and its community of partners to modify this framework in response to the practical experiences of national programmes. This flexibility was facilitated by the strong partnership that developed among researchers, LF programme managers and donors willing to support the necessary research agenda. This brief review summarizes the historical evolution of the GPELF M&E strategies and highlights current research needed to achieve the elimination goal. BT - International Health DO - 10.1093/inthealth/ihaa084 IS - Supplement_1 LA - eng N2 - Abstract The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was established with the ambitious goal of eliminating LF as a public health problem. The remarkable success of the GPELF over the past 2 decades in carrying out its principal strategy of scaling up and scaling down mass drug administration has relied first on the development of a rigorous monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework and then the willingness of the World Health Organization and its community of partners to modify this framework in response to the practical experiences of national programmes. This flexibility was facilitated by the strong partnership that developed among researchers, LF programme managers and donors willing to support the necessary research agenda. This brief review summarizes the historical evolution of the GPELF M&E strategies and highlights current research needed to achieve the elimination goal. PB - Oxford University Press (OUP) PY - 2020 SP - S65 EP - S70 T2 - International Health TI - Evolution of the monitoring and evaluation strategies to support the World Health Organization's Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis UR - https://academic.oup.com/inthealth/article-pdf/13/Supplement_1/S65/35056139/ihaa084.pdf VL - 13 SN - 1876-3413, 1876-3405 ER -