“The right to health for all people means that everyone should have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without suffering financial hardship.”  – Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health OrganizationUniversal Health Coverage (UHC) is a health

May 8 – 10, 2024 – the Ministry of Public Health, by the Health Intervention Technology Assessment Thailand (HITAP), partnered with the International Society for Priorities in Health (ISPH), a network of researchers, medical professionals, and policy-makers working in health prioritization, to organ

International workshop on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) inauguratedGovernment is committed to reducing out of pocket expenses on healthcare: Smt Anupriya PatelHTA will lead India to have a robust Universal Health Coverage programme: Shri Faggan Singh KulasteShri Faggan Singh Kulaste and Smt Anu

Digital health and Health Information Systems (HIS) are dramatically altering the landscape for health. Thailand achieved Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2002. However, the delivery of health services relies heavily on manpower without digitisation, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the lack

The 2019 National University of Singapore (NUS) Initiative to Improve Health in Asia Leadership Development Programme (NIHA LDP) was held at NUS, Singapore from the 24th – 29th June. The event aimed to equip policy-makers with an understanding of  health technology assessment (HTA) for health care p

HTAsiaLink 20188-11 May 2018, Chiang Mai, ThailandMore than 200 participants from over 30  HTA organizations and other academic and policy making agencies across the global joined this conference!The themes of this years’ conference is Testing Treatments: Strengthening HTA for better healthcare.For

The 12th HTAsiaLink Annual Conference, held on 19–22 August 2025 in Singapore, attracted health technology assessment (HTA) experts from across the Asia-Pacific region. The event welcomed over 450 participants from 98 organizations and showcased 175 abstracts, alongside three plenary sessio

As we approach the end of an unprecedented year, the approval of select COVID-19 vaccines by stringent regulatory authorities and programmatic roll-out has been cause for optimism. However, it is imperative to assure equitable access to those in need in all regions of the world as a core component o

Vietnam visit 30th and 31st May 2017It feels good to see familiar faces when you are in a new place and I felt the same meeting officials from Health Strategy Planning Institution (HSPI), Ministry of Health of Vietnam once again. I had met them earlier during the HTAsiaLink conference held in April

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 wor