Target Product Profile (TPP) template

The 2025 Animal Health Forum Technical Item on Vaccines and Vaccination recognised TPPs as practical tools to align expectations among researchers, manufacturers, regulators, funders and end-users, and recommended the development of a standardised WOAH TPP template.

A TPP outlines ideal and minimal performance characteristics of the product’s attributes, in this case vaccines. It is usually developed in a collaborative and consultative exercise by R&D teams, disease specific experts, commercial teams, and end users. It helps to set a goal and vision for the teams and ensures the product remains commercially viable. A TPP can be updated based on technical progress and can provide a framework for stop-go decisions if minimum performance criteria are not met. Meeting regulatory and intellectual property rights requirements are important considerations in product development.