Knowledge Translation: The Key to Turning Mathematical Models from a Black Box into a Powerful Tool for Policy Decision-Making: Bridging the Gap (Part 2)—How Thailand is Making Complex Health Models Work for Policy
This article is part 2 of the blog series: “Knowledge Translation: The Key to Turning Mathematical Models from a Black Box into a Powerful Tool for Policy Decision-Making” In part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the role of mathematical models in supporting evidence-based public health decisions. While models can offer valuable insights, their […]
Strengthening Health Technology Assessment in Asia: Insights from the 3rd Regional Workshop on Advanced Economic Evaluation Modeling
Countries across Asia are increasingly turning to health technology assessment (HTA) to ensure healthcare decisions are guided by appropriate evidence. However, many still face challenges in institutionalizing HTA, including building technical expertise, applying economic evaluation in decision-making, and negotiating fair prices for medicines and health technologies. Strengthening regional collaboration is essential to addressing these challenges, […]
Belt and Road: Cross-National Learning to Support Evidence-Informed Practice in Pediatric Healthcare
Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children’s Health of China are committed to advancing skills in conducting comprehensive clinical evaluations of medicines. This commitment is evident through a variety of initiatives, including workshops, training, and academic symposia that catalyse knowledge exchange between national and international experts. In 2021, the hospital held its […]
A Path to Better Health Outcomes: Kenya Introductory HTA Technical Workshop
Understanding Social, Economic, and Environmental Determinants, Measuring Outcomes and Impacts, and Implementing Effective Public Health Policies Kenya’s healthcare system, like many others, faces the formidable challenge of allocating limited resources to maximize health benefits for its population. With a growing population and increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, the need to make evidence-based and informed decisions about […]
From Development to Delivery: Reaching the Last Mile and the Way Forward
Asst. Prof Hannah Clapham during the policy conference session “Charting a path to sustainable immunization programs and preparedness/response strategies” The development, delivery, access, and perceptions around vaccination were all significantly impacted by pandemics. The pandemic has also emphasised the need and priority of vaccines, countries can use this to promote the strengthening of vaccine delivery […]
“INTRODUCTION TO BASIC SQL” workshop
Objectives: To introduce the basic SQL To provide insights on the basic SQL commands using DBeaver To illustrate how the basic SQL commands are applied for the research Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021 Time: 10.00 AM – 3.00 PM Registration: click here Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92102751892 Meeting ID: 921 0275 1892 Access to agenda: click here
“NHSO’s e-Claims data: What they are and how they can help” workshop
Objectives: To introduce NHSO’s e-Claims data To provide insights on data management steps of e-Claims data To illustrate how the data are applied for the research Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Time: 1.30 – 4.00 PM Registration: click here Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/94252834370 Meeting ID: 942 5283 4370 Access to agenda: click here
HITAP Webinar: Introducing the Whole Disease Modelling Approach
As economic evaluation methods are constantly changing and developing, it is important to stay abreast of the latest developments so that any beneficial new techniques are utilised, where possible, to maximise the public health impact of health economics and health technology assessment (HTA) research. On Wednesday 19th August 2020, HITAP hosted a webinar with guest […]
Vaccinology for Clinical and Public Health Practice: Policy Symposium and Workshop: From participant’s perspective
This blog has been jointly written by Dr. Phetsavanh Chanthavilay from the Institute of Research and Education Development, University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR, and Mr. Nantasit Luangasanatip from the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand. Their participation in this event was supported by the Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) grant to the Health Intervention […]
Momentum for HTA in the Land of a Thousand Hills
In October 2019, the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) and the National Health Foundation (NHF), two partners in the Asia Health Technology Assessment (HTA) consortium, were thrilled to take an 8000 km trip to Rwanda to talk all things ‘priority setting’ at a workshop in Kigali, the country’s capital. The two-day workshop titled […]