Sarin KC is Head of the Environmental Economics Unit at HITAP, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. Previously, he worked as a research analyst at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Ministry of Health and Population in Nepal.As a health economist, he has helped institutionalise Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in c

Sripen Tantivess BSc, MPH, PhD* * Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand This paper presents a review of the domestic and international literature on the assessment of the social and ethical implications of health technologies. It g

ตุลาคม 2566, HITAP จัดการประชุมผู้เชี่ยวชาญเพื่อนำเสนอข้อค้นพบและข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบายจากโครงการวิจัยเรื่อง “การจัดทำข้อเสนอแนะเพื่อสนับสนุนการพัฒนาแนวปฏิบัติและแนวทางการติดตามประเมินผลของระบบการแพทย์ทางไกลผ่านการถอดบทเรียนในบริบทไทยและบริบทโลก” ซึ่งศึกษาเกี่ยวกับระบบการแพทย์ทางไกล หรือ telemedicine

Background Healthcare policymaking often struggles to account for complex future uncertainties, particularly for policies affecting healthcare infrastructure or stakeholder behaviour. Scenario thinking is a structured approach for exploring multiple plausible futures. It has, however, been underuti

Criteria for priority setting of HIV/AIDS interventions in Thailand: a discrete choice experiment Sitaporn Youngkong*1,2, Rob Baltussen*1, Sripen Tantivess*2, Xander Koolman*3 and Yot Teerawattananon*2 1 Nijmegen International Center for Health Systems Research and Education (NICHE), Department of

Introduction The world has been in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic for over a year, costing many lives and bringing the ways of the world to a grinding halt. Among the strategies to respond to the pandemic, governments and the global community invested in developing vaccines. Those investments be

Naiyana Praditsitthikorn BSc(Pharm), PhD*,** * Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand ** Bureau of AIDS TB and STIs, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand There is an increasing number of at

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing public health challenges worldwide. AMR occurs when antimicrobials, such as antibiotics, become ineffective against the microorganisms that cause disease. This ineffectiveness can lead to serious infections, increased mortality, and significant economic losses.The Global Antibiotic Policy I

Infectious disease models can be used to forecast future outbreaks and estimate the impact of interventions to support policy. Although infectious disease modelling is a well-established method, it has recently gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as an important tool to support deci

K. Chittawatanarat a, *, K. Tosanguan b, U. Chaikledkaew b, c, S. Tejavanija d, Y. Teerawattananon b a Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, Intawarorod Road, Sripume, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand