Our Background
At Strengthening Active Partnerships for Policy and Health Intervention Research and Evaluation (SAPPHIRE) consortium, we believe that health technology assessment (HTA) is the key to resolving economic pressure in the health sector. As it is impossible to offer every health service available given limited health resources, HTA provides a way to help decision-makers to select which health services should be provided to whom and at what costs.
Our consortium has assembled the experience and reputation of internationally renowned experts in multidisciplinary fields related to HTA under the Thailand National Health Foundation (NHF); the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP); the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), National University of Singapore (NUS); Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU); and Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), Hitotsubashi University (HU). These organizations bring together an internationally acknowledged reputation of objectivity, independence and high-quality research with an extensive track record in the areas of public health, priority setting and capacity building.
Our Background
We believe that health technology assessment (HTA) is the key to stand up to economic pressure in the health sector. It is a way out of limited health resources as well as decide on what health service should be provide to whom and at what cost under the constraint that it is impossible to offer every health service available.
Our consortium have assembled by bringing together the experience and reputation of the National Health Foundation (NHF), the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH); National University of Singapore, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study; Hitotsubashi University, and Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit with nationally and internationally renowned experts in multidisciplinary fields related to Health Technology (HTA). These organisations bring together an internationally acknowledged reputation of objectivity, independence and high quality research with an extensive track record in the areas of public health, priority setting and capacity building.
