Training package for health technology assessment

Health technology assessment is a type of comprehensive analysis that assesses any medicine, device, procedure, care setting or screening that may provide new or enhanced benefits to population health. Generally, it captures safety, efficacy, feasibility and cost-effectiveness issues, as well as social, economic and ethical impact. This training package includes content on conducting an assessment, adapting an assessment report from another setting and applying the results of health technology assessment to evidence-informed policy-making. The supplementary materials at the end are for optional further reading, and also includes a link to a networking opportunity.    

Key learning objectives include: 

understanding the key components of Health technology assessment;

describing the scope and methods of conducting an assessment;

identifying strategies to adapt assessment reports from other countries, regions or settings.

Conducting health technology assessments

The webinars below provide valuable context on how to approach a health technology assessment. The text material and online course offer more specific guidance on the component parts of assessment.

 Adapting health technology assessments

The text resource below is structured as a toolkit to support adaptation of the findings from an assessment report from one context into another.

Supplementary materials

All supplementary materials are optional. The text material listed here is part of the WHO medical device technical series and provides a good overview of the role of HTA. The networking reference invites you to engage with the Health Technology Assessment International and it will depend on your circumstances if you or your organization has capacity to join.