MISSION REPORT: VISIT TO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RESEARCH

India is setting up a priority setting unit called the Medical Technology Assessment Board (MTAB) under the Department of Health Research (DHR) in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. The International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) is working with DHR in its effort to institutionalise health technology assessment (HTA) in the country. As part of this work, a team comprising staff from HITAP and Mahidol University visited DHR in New Delhi on 27-30 June, 2017. Three core groups working on HTA in India participated in the meeting viz. DHR, PGIMER, Chandigarh, and a delegation from Kerala. The objective of the visit was to learn about MTAB’s progress, to discuss and review the studies selected by each HTA team, to support their studies by sharing Thai experiences, to discuss how to conduct stakeholder meetings and to plan the next steps going forward.