HTADS courses

What is the Continuing Education Program on Health Technology Assessment & Decision Sciences (HTADS)?

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has been defined by the International Network of Agencies for HTA (INAHTA) as "a multidisciplinary field of policy analysis, studying the medical, economic, social, and ethical implications of development, diffusion and use of health technologies (e.g., drugs, devices, surgical procedures, prevention techniques)".

In conducting HTA, the discipline of decision sciences has become increasingly relevant. Decision Sciences (DS) is the application of explicit and quantitative methods to analyze decisions under conditions of uncertainty (e.g., meta-analysis, decision-analytic modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis).

In recent years, HTA and DS have become very important to health care policymakers.
In order to keep pace with these developments, the UMIT TIROL - HTADS Program was designed to provide excellent quality education and comprehensive training in the key issues of HTA and DS for anyone involved in the health sector.

Doctoral Program / HTADS Certificate Courses
Doctoral Program Health Technology Assessment
Certificate Courses
M1: 5-Day Certified University Course Autumn School in Clinical Epidemiology ONLINE	13 - 17 September 2021
M2: 4-Day Certified University Course Introduction to Health Technology Assessment	2021 - tbd.
M3: 3-Day Certified University Course Modeling Approaches for HTA: A Practical Hands-on Workshop	08 - 10 September 2021
M4: 5-Day Certified University Course Causal Inference for Assessing Effectiveness in Real World Data and Health Technology Assessment: A Practical Hands-on Workshop - ONLINE	Spring 2022
M5: 3-Day Certified University Course Scientific Reporting and Writing - ONLINE	15 - 17 November 2021
M6: 3-Day Certified University Course Introduction to Statistics - An Applied 3-Day Hands-On Workshop with R	23 - 25 November 2021
Certificate Courses in Statistics and Epidemiology	2020/2021
M7: 3-Day Certified University Course Advanced Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis - ONLINE	18 - 20 March 2021

In case of international travel restrictions, the courses will be organized as synchronous online courses.

Comments of participants of our previous courses:

'The 4-day course helped me to better understand the framework for HTA, and put the bits and pieces together. The course was dynamic, and assuming that people have some basic previous knowledge, it provides with the maximum effect. We were wondering that the participants were still smiling after 12 hours of work - quite uncommon for any training course.'

Mikk Jurisson, MD
Merck Sharp & Dome, Managing Director Baltics