Contributor: Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program

HITAP is beginning a collaboration with the Ethiopia Institute of Public Health (EPHI) to support the use of evidence in the country for COVID-19 and beyond. Potential areas of collaboration include the following themes:

• Theme 1: COVID-19 Disease epidemic and resources need modeling /forecasting
• Theme 2: Health system capacity and resource needs assessment against pandemic to effectively respond to the pandemic
• Theme 3: Cost-effectiveness of pandemic preparedness and non-pharmaceutical interventions
• Theme 4: Health, social and economic impacts of COVID-19

To start, HITAP is providing EPHI technical and capacity-building support for a systematic review of economic evaluations of pandemic interventions.