The Pan American Health Organization and the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA), together with the Inter-American Development Bank and its Criteria Network, invite you to a new Webinar entitled: “COST-EFFECTIVENESS THRESHOLDS: Optimizing the allocation of health resources in the Americas”, to be held on Friday, August 11, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (EDT/WDC). The event will be held in Spanish and Portuguese, with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

How to take part

• DAY: Friday, August 11, 2023
• HOUR: 10:00 – 11:30 EDT [check local time in other cities at the end]
• RECORD: https://paho-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IELiLK5kSkiPLtajk7-Rag

After registering you will receive an email confirmation with the link to participate.

• LANGUAGES: Spanish and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation into English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Context

Today, health systems face strong pressures to meet the growing needs of populations with the resources they have.

To address evidence-based universal health, efficiency evaluation is essential. Moreover, most existing value frameworks agree that cost-effectiveness is a key value dimension to assess when deciding how to allocate health resources. Therefore, economic evaluations have become key tools to assess the efficiency of a wide range of health technologies or interventions.

A crucial barrier to the widespread adoption of cost-effectiveness analysis for decision making is the absence of a widely accepted decision rule that can be used worldwide, i.e., what is cost-effective in a particular country or jurisdiction.

About the webinar

The webinar on cost-effectiveness thresholds will allow participants to learn about the importance of making evidence-based health decisions and concentrating efforts and resources on the most cost-effective health interventions and technologies. Andrés Pichón-Riviere will tell us about the study they conducted together with other professionals to estimate cost-effectiveness thresholds based on per capita health expenditure and life expectancy at birth, empirically establishing thresholds for 174 countries. Be part of a multidimensional discussion with speakers from Brazil and Colombia who will address, based on their experiences, the contribution of thresholds to having more efficient and equitable health systems.

Diary

37th Edition of the RedETSA Webinar Program: “COST-EFFECTIVENESS THRESHOLDS: Optimizing the allocation of health resources in the Americas”

10:00 – 10:10 EDT – Opening and Welcome by PAHO

10:10 – 10:30 EDT – Presentation by Andrés Pichón-Riviere, General Director of the Institute for Clinical and Health Effectiveness-IECS, Argentina

10:30 – 10:35 EDT – Remarks by PAHO and IDB

10:35 – 10:45 EDT – Commentary and Experience from Colombia, by Adriana Robayo, Executive Director, Institute for Health Technology Assessment-IETS, Colombia

10:45 – 10:55 – Commentary and Experience of Brazil, by Luciene Bonan, Director of the National Commission for the Incorporation of Technologies, CONITEC, Brazil

10:55 – 11:25 EDT – Questions and Answers

11:25 – 11:30 EDT – Closing of the Webinar by the IDB

Time correspondence

• 7:00 am – Los Angeles, Vancouver
• 8:00 am. – Belmopan, Guatemala City, Managua, Mexico City, San Jose (CR), San Salvador, Tegucigalpa
• 9:00 am. – Bogotá, Panama City, Kingston, Lima, Quito, Cayman Islands
• 10:00 am. – Asunción, Bridgetown, Caracas, Castries, Georgetown, Havana, La Paz, Nassau, Ottawa, Port-au-Prince, Port of Spain, San Juan, Santiago, Santo Domingo, Washington DC
• 11:00 pm – Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo, Paramaribo
• 4:00 pm. – Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona

For other cities, please check the local time in the following link