This report provides a summary of the fourth visit to Myanmar as part of this study. In preparation for data collection, a training was organized by the MoHS for supervisors and enumerators. HITAP delivered sessions on a sampling of villages, wards, and households, the manual for supervisors a

The Indonesian HTA Committee (InaHTAC) was formally renewed and continues its work as a facilitator of national HTA studies as of 2016. Under their oversight and technical support provided by iDSI, three HTA economic evaluation studies were completed from 2014-2016: the economic evaluation of

A series of 4 workshops are planned to be held over the course of the next 12 months in order to build capacity in health technology assessment (HTA) for a group of researchers from the HTAIn Technical Partners and resource hubs. These workshops will be delivered by the HTAIn, the iDSI, and PGIMER C

The aim of the meeting was to feedback the findings from the Total Systems Effectiveness (TSE) Thailand pilot project back to stakeholders and discuss the usefulness and applicability of TSE for the Thai setting. For full report please click here

The objective of the meeting is to introduce stakeholders involved in vaccine decision-making in Thailand to TSE and receive initial feedback on the project. Download here

In January 2019, the Minister of Health from Chhattisgarh state, India, reached out to International Health Policy Program (IHPP), a semi-autonomous research program in Thailand, to learn about the Thai experience of implementing Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The minister requested to meet with s

In 2018, Kenya’s President committed to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. Subsequently, in June of the same year, the Cabinet Secretary for Health formed a Health Benefits Advisory Panel (HBAP) to develop a benefits package for the UHC program. Through past engagements between the K

Kenya’s President has committed to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) that provides medical insurance coverage to its members and their declared dependents will be transformed to become the manager of UHC. To this end, the Cabinet Secretary f

In the Philippines, use of HTA is not completely new; there have been prior efforts to institutionalize a fair and systematic process of generating policy-relevant evidence to inform coverage of health services, such as listing of drugs in the national formulary and new benefits in the national soci

The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), a member of the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) organised a side meeting titled “Attain & Sustain Health Gains: Incorporating Value-For-Money in the Universal Health Coverage Dialogue” at the Prince Mahidol Award