India is setting up a priority setting unit called the Medical Technology Assessment Board (MTAB) under the Department of Health Research (DHR) in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. The International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) is working with DHR in its e

The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, has been working closely with the Health Technology Assessment Committee (HTAC), Ministry of Health, Indonesia, since 2014 under the auspices of the International Decision Support Initiative

The International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) lead by Health Intervention Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) has been working closely with the Health Technology Assessment Committee (HTAC) the nodal agency responsible for health technology assessment (HTA) under the Ministry of Health, Ind

Financial protection has been one of the central tenets of the movement to achieve universal health coverage and has been enshrined as one of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) on health is high in many of the countries in the Southeast Asia region and

Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health through the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) has been working in Vietnam since 2014. iDSI has supported Ministry of Health (MOH) Vietnam in realising Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through a dif

Timor Leste is aiming to strengthen the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of their healthcare services. As part of this, Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) has been commissioned by UNICEF to assess one aspect of the M&E system called the ‘Supportive Supervision Facil

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 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

As innovative technologies and biological treatment are becoming available for use, policymakers worldwide will require a tool to evaluate the cost and assess the trade-offs. The concept of Total System Effectiveness (TSE) is an end-to-end analytical framework which is intended to inform future inve

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