At the recent Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2025, the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) Foundation hosted a side meeting on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. This meeting “Is AI a Panacea for the Health Sector? Navigating the Barriers to Ado

The warning, stemming from an April inspection by U.S. regulators, does not restrict production or product shipments from the plant in La Aurora de Heredia, Costa Rica, Hospira said on Tuesday in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Among the issues cited by the FDA w

On 29 January 2013, a side meeting entitled “the establishment and evolution of health technology assessment organisations in low- and middle-income countries”, which was co-organized by HTAsiaLink and NICE international, intended to create an open space for sharing, learning and inspiring participa

PMAC 2016 Side Event (SE 012): Health Intervention and Technology Assessment (HITA): A Path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC)Given the global push to implement UHC, the importance of using evidence, namely health intervention and technology assessments (HITA), in governments’ decision making proces

Nonthaburi, Thailand | November 25, 2022 – The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) announced the completion of the first Technical Workshop on Infectious Disease Modelling. Research staff from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) with joint appointment

HITAP emphasise the lead role of Thailand in public health system as the host of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) conference at the regional level gathering around 300 academics from 20 countries to present their research work, build a network for health policy recommendations development, and

Recognizing the benefits of economic evaluations as a tool to inform public health policy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in collaboration with the Tufts Medical Center has endeavored to aid in creating the tools, mechanisms, and frameworks to facilitate the generation of research, assessments, and evaluations globally. While the conc

The project aims to develop methods and tools for unit cost analysis of medical and health services, and to develop a standard unit cost list for medical and health services including reference values used for cost analysis. The project is divided into 5 subprojects, 1) Quality indicator development and evaluation of costing studies in Thailand, 2)

Objective: To analyze the cost-utility of two common clinical practices for stage IB cervical cancer patients from provider and societal viewpoints. Methods: A decision tree model was conducted to examine value for expenditure between the following: (1) radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymph node

Objectives Based on a real-world collaboration with innovators in applying early health economic modeling, we aimed to offer practical steps that health technology assessment (HTA) researchers and innovators can follow and promote the usage of early HTA among research and development (R&D) comm