title: CAPACITY BUILDING IN AGENCIES FOR EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Health technology assessment (HTA) yields information that can be ideally used to address deficiencies in health systems and to create a wider understanding of the impact of different policy considerations around technology reimbursement and use. The structure of HTA programs varies across different jurisdictions according to decision-maker needs. Moreover, conducting HTA requires specialized skills. Effective decision making should include multiple criteria (medical, economic, technical, ethical, social, legal, and cultural) and requires multi-disciplinary teams of experts working together to produce these assessments. A workshop explored the multi-disciplinary skills and competencies required to build an effective and efficient HTA team, with a focus on low- and middle-income settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  This proceeding summarizes main points from a workshop on capacity building, drawing on presentations and group discussions among attendees including different points of view.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The workshop and thus this study would have benefited from a larger variety of stakeholders. Therefore, the conclusions arising from the workshop are not the opinion of a representative sample of HTA professionals. Nonetheless, organizations and speakers were carefully selected to provide a valuable approach to this theme. Thus, these proceedings highlight some of the gaps and needs in the education and training programs offered worldwide and calls for further investigation.
authors.affiliation: CMeRCdbmueller7@yahoo.de.
authors.forename: Debjani
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mueller
authors.affiliation: OSTEBA.
authors.forename: Iñaki
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea
authors.affiliation: IHE.
authors.forename: Tara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schuller
authors.affiliation: SiFaCT - Italian Society of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0943-6746
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chiumente
authors.affiliation: National Evidence Based Healthcare Collaborating Agency.
authors.forename: Jeonghoon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.affiliation: ICES.
authors.forename: Andres
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pichon-Riviere
authors.affiliation: ICES.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: García-Martí
authors.affiliation: Lilly.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grainger
authors.affiliation: Merck.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cobbs
authors.affiliation: HTA Unit,University Hospital "A. Gemelli".
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marchetti
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003142:Communication; D003469:Culture; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D058436:Knowledge Management; D011361:Professional Competence; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Biomedical; Capacity building; Health policy; Healthcare technology; Knowledge management; Technology assessment