HTAi Strategic Plan 2020-2025

2020-2025 Strategic Plan Developed by the Strategic Planning Working Group in consultation with the Society Membership To be submitted for Board approval January 2020

Who We Are In advancing health systems throughout the world, health technology assessment (HTA) plays an essential role. HTA is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its lifecycle. The purpose is to inform decision-making in order to promote an equitable, efficient, and high-quality health system. A health technology is an intervention and numerous Working Groups, each linked developed to prevent, diagnose, or treat to our vision. More information can be found here. medical conditions; promote health; provide Together we are committed to expanding our rehabilitation; or organize healthcare delivery. ability to mobilize and strengthen the global HTA The intervention can be a test, device, medicine, community. The HTAi Board of Directors is vaccine, procedure, program, or system. supported by a professional Secretariat. Heath Technology Assessment international Vision (HTAi) provides an open platform for global collaboration that leverages collective To continue to be the leading global Society for all intelligence to improve health outcomes stakeholders engaged in the production and use worldwide. Representing over 80 organizational of HTA in decision-making. members and thousands of individuals from 65 countries, we are the scientific and Core Values professional global society for HTA thought- leaders, academic and industry researchers, The Board and Secretariat will have the following patients, caregivers, patient organisations, HTA core values at the heart of all actions: agencies, decision-makers, providers, and health professionals. • Professionalism • Integrity HTAi is governed by an elected Board of • Collaboration Directors that, much like our membership, hail • Cooperation from around the globe. The Board is, in turn, • Transparency supported by an Executive Committee, Finance • Accountability and Audit Committee, Advisory Committees,

What We Do Mission –3– To promote the development, communication, understanding, and use of HTA around the world. We accomplish this mission through four areas of focus: • Expand and grow the presence of HTAi globally through our membership • Expand HTA through knowledge sharing and information dissemination through partnerships • Advance scientific knowledge and support capacity development • Ensure continued financial stability and good governance 2500+ ENGAGED STAKEHOLDERS 42% ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS 12% GOVERNMENT POLICY MAKERS 9% HEALTH ADMINISTRATORS 12% INDUSTRY AFFILIATES 25% CLINICIANS, STUDENTS, PATIENTS AND OTHERS International Networking 25% Members Have 10+ Years With HTAi Leading HTA Producers and Users HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT iNTERNATIONAL

Colombia Ireland India Brazil United Kingdom China Ecuador Norway South Korea Mexico Spain Japan El Salvador Poland Taiwan Panama Germany Thailand Argentina Netherlands Vietnam Uruguay Ukraine Cambodia Paraguay Italy Philippines Costa Rica Ghana Malaysia Chile Singapore Peru Indonesia Canada Australia USA 1,000+ ANNUAL Academics / Researchers Where Clinicians / Health Care Providers We MEETING ATTENDEES Have Industry Representatives Been FROM OVER 65 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING Hospital-Based HTA HTA Agency Representatives HTA Methodologists Students / New to HTA Patient Representatives, Patients Payers / Regulators

Where We Are Going 2020-2025 Outcomes • Create new ways of bridging interested –5– stakeholders to discuss locally-relevant HTA The following are the overarching outcomes for topics and to further promote the advancement HTAi as we move towards 2025: of HTA around the world; Expand our membership • Expand and enhance HTAi’s partnerships • Focus on retaining members between Annual that make a positive contribution to the HTA Meetings and growing the membership community and enable HTAi to have a high- outside the Annual Meetings; level awareness of similar organizations’ • Improve and expand accessibility of our activities around the world; functions to members, while ensuring the stability of Secretariat resources to provide • Contribute to the development, and the support for these activities. accreditation of, products, competencies, and capacity within the HTA community; Expand the presence of HTAi globally • Extend global reach by seeking new • C ollaborate with other interested parties relationships and improving existing who see value in developing and delivering relationships with partners and stakeholders, educational content, including workshops and including HTA producers, decision makers, webinars for various HTA audiences (such as patients and others; students, hospital administrators, front-line • Engage emerging HTA markets in Africa, clinicians, other HTA producers, and users). Asia, and Latin America by seeking new ways to connect our members with the broader Ensure continued financial stability and good international HTA community; governance Advance the field through knowledge • Increase revenue generation through our production, sharing, and capacity activities, external grants, and sponsorship to development ensure financial stability of the Society while expanding and growing; • Enhance collaboration and information sharing with international and regional • Streamline internal business functions and institutions, organizations, and individuals bring more services in-house—through defined working within the field of HTA; key performance indicators—toward achieving optimal efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction; • Enhance the content, accessibility, and organizing processes of our important • Ensure compliance with all legal regulations, networking opportunities; and advance diversity and equality across all Society activities and events. HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT iNTERNATIONAL

How We Will Get There To achieve our mission Focus on Membership Focus on Partnership and vision in collaboration with the HTAi Board HTAi will develop and implement HTAi will explore new and existing Advisory committees, a membership recruitment and partnerships and collaborate with the HTAi Secretariat will retention strategy that will seek other international, evidence-informed develop a 2020-2025 new ways to attract and engage health organizations on priority topics implementation plan. members of the Society. Emphasis and projects. This expansion of The Board committees will be placed on lower and partnerships and collaborations will are aligned to the four middle-income countries to help expand and grow the presence of areas of focus and our key expand the global presence of HTAi globally, and will help us advance areas of activity. The plan HTA. This increase of members will the field through knowledge sharing will incorporate priority add funds to the Society to assist and information dissemination with activities and projected in ensuring continued financial these key partners. Topics to explore outcomes for each year, stability, and ultimately lead to a will include educational offerings and a communications plan larger consistent membership not (such as webinars and workshops), will support information centered solely around attendance competency development, and sharing to our current and at the Annual Meeting. We will also outreach to emerging HTA markets. We potential membership assess the needs and preference will maintain the strong links with our addressing each area of members, and analyze trends of existing formal partners with whom we of focus. past registrations and membership have Memorandums of Understanding renewals to bring greater value partners, our organizational partners, to members with Society-driven all potential future partners, and key activities and partnerships. HTA stakeholder organizations.

Focus on Scientific Focus on Financial –7– Capacity Development Stability and Good Governance HTAi will continue to develop environmental, organizational, and HTAi will continue to explore new individual HTA capacity around the and existing relationships and globe and build up an efficient processes that will support revenue learning environment within HTAi. generation for the long-term We will identify the learning needs sustainability of the Society while of HTA producers and users within meeting its goals and objectives. the HTAi community, and collaborate New business initiatives will be with teaching centers and academia, critical to ensure that our revenue as well as partner with governmental comes from other activities, in and non-governmental HTA bodies addition to the Annual Meetings. to develop necessary resources to Successful projects include the support learning. We will continue development of webinars and to advocate for political support in workshops. the development of HTA agencies and organizations within countries where HTA is nascent, and work with established HTA communities to up-skill capacity to support the production and use of HTA as methodologies, technologies, and regulatory requirements advance. HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT iNTERNATIONAL

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