CADTH 25th Anniversary Lecture Series

Free webinars announced: Citizen's Juries & Rational Pharmacare October 8, 2014 Professor Annette Braunack-Mayer, Head of the School of Population Health and Professor in Ethics in the Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide. Lecture: Using Citizens’ Juries in Health Policy Decision-Making: A Systematic Review and Personal Reflection. October 28, 2014 Dr. Marc-André Gagnon, Assistant…

INAHTA Checklist now available in Italian

INAHTA warmly thanks our colleagues at the GIMBE Foundation for their work in translating the INAHTA Checklist to Italian, and for promoting the Checklist to 100.000 Italian health professionals.  The INAHTA Checklist is an aid to furthering a consistent and transparent approach to HTA.  The Italian translation of the INAHTA checklist has been published in…

Request for Mentorship: Kazakh National Medical University

The INAHTA Mentorship Program has received a new Request for Mentorship. REQUEST from:  Kazakh National Medical University (KazNMU) Date posted: August 30, 2014 Summary of request:     Kazakh National Medical University (KazNMU), Kazakhstan, has created a new Committee on HTA to implement HTA in university hospitals.     Requests delivery of training course in core HTA…

Join Committees & Task Groups

INAHTA members invited to join the following groups to advise and help execute the activities of the Network: Board Standing Committees: Internal Communications: optimizing how we communicate amongst members of the Network External Partnerships: managing our relationships with partner organizations in the HTA community Board Task Groups: Membership Criteria: to review components of the criteria…

New Listserv reports available

Summary reports of three recent listserv questions are now available. Members can view these reports (login required): Cardiovascular disease risk markers compared with prediction models – other agencies working in this area? (KCE, Belgium) Approaches to facilitate adoption of non-medicines technologies where little/no supporting evidence is available? (HIS, Scotland) HTA reports and/or recommendations for sildenafil?…

Patient Submission Templates for HTA – Call for Piloting/Consultation

The HTAi Patient & Citizen Involvement interest sub-group has prepared templates for Patient Group Submissions for non-Medicine's HTA and Medicine's HTA.  They are asking INAHTA members to pilot / consult on these templates.  Details provided below. Patient Submission Templates for Non-Medicine's HTA – For Consultation The HTAi Interest Sub-Group for Patient/Citizen Involvement in Health Technology…