Mission Report: Study Visit by Ministry of Health, Ghana, on the Development and Institutionalization of Health Technology Assessment (HTA)

The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Ghana has been seeking to incorporate Health Technology Assessment (HTA) into their decision-making process to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). To support this effort, the MoH has collaborated with the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) and the Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) to develop a five-year strategy and design appropriate governance structures for HTA in Ghana. To gain practical experience, delegates from Ghana’s HTA team visited Thailand to participate in the 10^th HTAsiaLink Annual Conference and had an opportunity to engage with partners in Asia as well as in Africa to learn from HITAP’s experience and understand the HTA system in Thailand. Prior to the study visit, delegates from Ghana. The study visit had specific objectives, including understanding the mandate, functions, and processes of HTA, the institutional/organizational and governance arrangements for an HTA system, and applying this knowledge to Ghana’s context following the launch of their HTA process guideline. The visit included presentations, discussions, and group-work exercises, and was the first phase of a two-phase collaboration, with the second phase involving a visit by HITAP to Ghana for conducting an HTA workshop. This collaboration has been supported by ADP. This report provides a summary of the workshop, meetings with partners, and results, with supporting documents are provided in the annexes.

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