COVID-19 has shown that irresepctive of national borders, the infectious disease brings multi-dimensional challenges requiring concerted global and regional efforts to address it. In contrast to the European Union and the African Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the regional cooperation body in Southeast Asia, has had no e

HTAsiaLink 20188-11 May 2018, Chiang Mai, ThailandMore than 200 participants from over 30  HTA organizations and other academic and policy making agencies across the global joined this conference!The themes of this years’ conference is Testing Treatments: Strengthening HTA for better healthcare.For

An aim of this project is to prioritise Health Technology Assessment (HTA) topics.Topic prioritisation process consists of three key principles namely,1) the entire process and results must be transparent;2) the process as well as the prioritised list should be reflect benefits of the society; and3) the participation from multiple groups of stakeho

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

Over the past two decades a notable progression has been made in relation to the capacity building of health technology assessment (HTA ) research and its policy utility in Thailand. Such developments have been shaped by multiple factors. This study aims to review 20 years experiences of an attempt to establish a  formal HTA system in Thailand, fo

This project aims to support HITAP ’s capacity building strategy through individual capacity development schemes, for instance, participating in academic conferences, or providing an opportunity to work in and learn from other health technology assessment (HTA ) organizations. In addition, this project included international networking with leadi

The project in phase II aims to develop capability in the assessment of health technologies and policies through the activities of capacity building of staff, organization and networks, and to promote the network of the assessment of health technologies and policies in order to make the assessment of health technologies and policies in Thailand as

\"First Step”, a program evaluation report, assessing HITAP’s two-year efforts and providing recommendations for further development of HITAP. This program evaluation was conducted by four external evaluators including Prof. John Cairns, Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Prof. Paibul Suriyawongpaisal, and Dr. Jirawat Panpiemras. Moreover, Prof. Mark Sculp

Because the quality of cost-effectiveness studies related to the Thai context is still limited, the Thai health technology assessment guidelines have been firstly developed in Thailand for researchers to stimulate the provision of standardized, reliable and good quality information which can be used by policy makers and healthcare personnel for mak

Thai Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Database was initially developed in 2008 and aimed to improve accessibility of HTA information. In this Phase II study, the database is extending the type of research articles. Consequently, 4 types of studies which are full economic evaluation, randomized controlled trial, quality of life and cost of illness