HTA WORKSHOP AND TECHNICAL STUDY SUPPORT AT THE CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE (CMC) VELLORE

In October 2018, three researchers from the Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore spent a week at the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, to learn about health technology assessments and to apply costing analyses on two cost-ofillness studies on rotavirus and enteric fever. Following this visit, discussions turned to increasing the capacity for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to be incorporated into research at the institution. On this basis, an introductory HTA workshop was organized on 6-8 May 2019 at CMC Vellore, India.

The workshop was hosted by Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Professor and Head of the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory in the Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences at CMC Vellore. Eight teaching faculty travelled to CMC Vellore to lead the workshop. Faculty were drawn from HITAP, Mahidol University (MU), the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Thailand, and the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. Practical exercises were supported by the CMC research team who had previously visited HITAP.

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