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

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

Introduction The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) has been working with the Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP), hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to support countries to strengthen their capacity to strengthen evidence-informed decisions fo

Executive Summary The 3rd Regional Workshop on Advanced Economic Evaluation was conducted on 24-26 February 2025, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop was co-organized by the Ministry of Health, Indonesia, and HITAP, under the aegis of SAPPHIRE and the HTAsiaLink network with support from partners

The TATA Memorial Center (TMC) is a national comprehensive cancer center for prevention, treatment and research on cancer situated in Mumbai India. It is a leading tertiary cancer treatment and research center in South Asia. Since seventy years of its existence, this research center has been committ

Bhutan achieved Universal Child Immunization in 1991 and has maintained high immunization coverage over the past decades. Since Bhutan transitioned from Gavi support in 2016 after the country’s economic classification changed to lower‐middle income country, the government is now responsible for allo

Bhutan achieved Universal Child Immunization in 1991 and has maintained high immunization coverage over the past decades. Since Bhutan transitioned from Gavi support in 2016 after the country’s economic classification changed to lower‐middle income country, the government is now responsible for allo

From November 15-17, 2016, HITAP attended the South-South collaboration workshop in Irene, Pretoria, South Africa. Through the support of the international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI), representatives from countries all over Africa and Asia (namely Cambodia, China, India, South Africa, Thaila

The attempt to provide public health insurance in Vietnam began since before the ‘Doi Moi’, an economic reform which happened in 1986, when health care activities were all supported by the government. After the reform, the structure of government support for health care changed to partial support. V