One day, I was perusing the news and I came across an article about the inclusion of five new high-cost drugs in the Thai benefits package. Unbeknownst to me, the Thai Universal Health Coverage (UHC) released a news article in all domestic newspapers informing the public that the Director-General of

Understanding Social, Economic, and Environmental Determinants, Measuring Outcomes and Impacts, and Implementing Effective Public Health Policies Kenya’s healthcare system, like many others, faces the formidable challenge of allocating limited resources to maximize health benefi

Abstract Background Progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage and institutionalizing healthcare priority setting through health technology assessment (HTA) in the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region varies considerably across countries because of differences in heal

An aim of this study is to describe quantitatively and qualitatively progression and findings from the HTA topic selection process recently developed by HITAP. The process involves potential users of HTA information; namely (1) third party payers (public health insurers), (2) national health care program managers (Ministry of Public Health’s Depa

This 9th issue of HTAsiaLink newsletter focuses on “Building HTA: The Road to Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency”. The issue teases out what it means to have organizational effectiveness and efficiency. We illuminate that effectiveness and efficiency is not limited to the establishment of a

On 13 Oct, 2021, our outstanding presenters received big achievements by winning amazing awards at the 9th HTAsiaLink Annual Virtual Conference 2021 which virtually held on 11 – 13  October 2021. The winners are as listed below:Best Oral Presentation HSS 1st WINNER: Chanida EkakkararungrojBest Poste

We are pleased to announce that the HTAsiaLink annual conference in 2019 will be hosted by National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA) from the 24th to the 27th April 2019, in Seoul, South Korea. The theme for this conference is ‘Priority Setting for Universal

Welcome all of you to the 7th issue of HTAsiaLink newsletter. This issue comes just before the beginning of our 4th annual conference which will take place in Taipei, Taiwan in May 2015. The conference will focus on sharing experiences of HTA for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Asia. To align wit