KEY MESSAGES • Thailand uses co-production of evidence, based on the concept of the “triangle that moves the mountain,” to support health policy making • The annual national health assembly is a key platform for interactions between multiple stakeholders to adopt resolutions through consensus •

Background Healthcare policymaking often struggles to account for complex future uncertainties, particularly for policies affecting healthcare infrastructure or stakeholder behaviour. Scenario thinking is a structured approach for exploring multiple plausible futures. It has, however, been underuti

HITAP is working with partners to support the Kenyan Ministry of Health to institutionalise health priority setting at the national level of the health system. A relationship between the Kenyan Mininstry of Health and the Thai Ministry of Public Health has been formalised through a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The collaboration focuses on hel

(HITAP, Thailand) On 23-25 January 2017, delegates from the Department of Health Research (DHR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, visited HITAP to learn about the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) system in Thailand. During the discussion, the application of the Thai expe

As a part of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on healthcare between the Kenyan Ministry of Health and Thai Ministry of Public Health, a delegation from Kenya, including the Senate, Health Financing Reforms Experts’ Panel (HEFREP), and Ministry of Health of Kenya, visit Thailand from 5th to 7th June

Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai is a Secretary General and Senior Researcher of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program Foundation (HITAP), Thailand. She is also an Affiliated Scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, in Canada.H

This is a guest post by Moriah Pollock-Hawthorne, Haverford University.I was an intern at NICE International and an American university student with aspirations to become a doctor. In an effort to learn about universal health coverage and experience a single-payer healthcare system in action, I came

Natthida Malathong received Bachelor’s in Public Health form major of Public Health, School of Health Science, Mae Fah Luang University in 2015. She start working in HITAP’s research assistant sine 2015 to May 2019 and currently working as a Operations Management Associate

Naiyana Praditsitthikorn BSc(Pharm), PhD*,** * Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand ** Bureau of AIDS TB and STIs, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand There is an increasing number of at

Sarin KC is Head of the Environmental Economics Unit at HITAP, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. Previously, he worked as a research analyst at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Ministry of Health and Population in Nepal.As a health economist, he has helped institutionalise Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in c