CAPACITY BUILDING in AGENCIES for EFFICIENT and EFFECTIVE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

MUELLER, DEBJANI; GUTIÉRREZ-IBARLUZEA, IÑAKI; SCHULLER, TARA; CHIUMENTE, MARCO; AHN, JEONGHOON; PICHON-RIVIERE, ANDRES; GARCÍA-MARTÍ, SEBASTIAN; GRAINGER, DAVID; COBBS, ELIZABETH; MARCHETTI, MARCO

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS

Año: 2017 vol. 32 p. 292 - 299

0266-4623

Objectives: Health technology assessment (HTA) yields information that can be ideally used to address deficiencies in health systems and to create a wider understanding of the impact of different policy considerations around technology reimbursement and use. The structure of HTA programs varies across different jurisdictions according to decision-maker needs. Moreover, conducting HTA requires specialized skills. Effective decision making should include multiple criteria (medical, economic, technical, ethical, social, legal, and cultural) and requires multi-disciplinary teams of experts working together to produce these assessments. A workshop explored the multi-disciplinary skills and competencies required to build an effective and efficient HTA team, with a focus on low-and middle-income settings. Methods: This proceeding summarizes main points from a workshop on capacity building, drawing on presentations and group discussions among attendees including different points of view. Results and Conclusions: The workshop and thus this study would have benefited from a larger variety of stakeholders. Therefore, the conclusions arising from the workshop are not the opinion of a representative sample of HTA professionals. Nonetheless, organizations and speakers were carefully selected to provide a valuable approach to this theme. Thus, these proceedings highlight some of the gaps and needs in the education and training programs offered worldwide and calls for further investigation.