A medical doctor and health economist by training, Yot is a founder of HITAP under the Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. The works of HITAP have been used to inform coverage decisions and price negotiation on medicines, vaccines, medical devices, health promotion and disease prevention under the Universal Health Coverage Scheme. Recently, he joins the National University of Singapore as a visiting professor at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI). He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and provided technical support for HTA capacity building in a wide range of countries including Bhutan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Myanmar, the Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Yot is the founder and former president of the HTAsiaLink, a regional network comprising of more than 30 health technology assessment agencies throughout Asia and Pacific region.
Future of health economic evaluation
Date:
Friday, 21 December 2018
Time:
11.00am – 12.00pm
Synopsis:
After the series of HTA seminars from June to October 2018, the school would like to announce the final HTA seminar in the series on the Future of health economic evaluation on 21 Dec 2018. At this seminar, participants will learn about the possibilities for HTA and its impact in the future. The seminar will also wrap up the series and sum up the range of topics addressed in them.
This series of seminars explores the usefulness and limitations of using health economic evaluations in healthcare policy development with a focus on the political context in Asian countries. It is led by Yot Teerawattananon, a Visiting Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the founder of Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand.
It aims to answer the following questions:
- What is the potential use of economic evaluation in health policy?
- What are the obstacles in using health economic evaluation to guide health resource allocation?
- How might an increased understanding of the usefulness and limitations of economic evaluation influence health policy?
The seminar series also creates opportunity for participants from academia, policy, and professional groups to come together to engage in constructive discussion on the effective use of economic evaluation information to influence health policy.
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