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Over the last two decades, the ITFDE has held 33 meetings, discussed 22 diseases, and made 244 recommendations. This report aims to analyze the patterns in recommendations made by the ITFDE between 2001 and 2022 and assess the ITFDE\u2019s role, impacts, and successes in advancing elimination and eradication efforts for selected diseases. Using a thematic analysis, recommendation categories were crafted, followed by a scoping review to determine evidence of implementation for each recommendation. Categories of recommendations included research (24%), leadership (20%), medical (17%), advocacy (11%), collaboration (13%), development (8%), and financial (8%). We determined that 123 (50.4%) ITFDE recommendations were implemented in some form. Notably, the ITFDE has helped raise the profile of neglected tropical diseases. Four salient outcomes include 1) the identification of the potential eradicability of lymphatic filariasis (1993), 2) the recognition of the critical need for improved treatments of human African trypanosomiasis (2002), 3) a recommendation for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis and malaria from Hispaniola (2006), and 4) recommendations for effective and safe ways to avoid disruption of elimination and eradication programs during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020). This review of the ITFDE will help to devise new approaches to monitor its impact in the future.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.23-0885","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,24]],"date-time":"2024-07-24T19:25:25Z","timestamp":1721849125000},"page":"5-11","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Evaluation of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication: A Review of Past Deliberations"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"111","author":[{"given":"Shanze","family":"Sadiq","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ursula A.","family":"Kajani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anyess R.","family":"Travers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Carter Center, Atlanta, 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