Evidence-informed health policy
Connecting countries from the Balkans to Central Asia through health technology assessment.
Established in 2015
About the initiative
Founded in 2015 under the leadership of the Turkish Evidence Based Medicine Society, with support from TİKA — the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency.
A regional platform for sharing expertise and strengthening evidence-informed health policy, connecting countries from the Balkans to Central Asia.
Health technology assessment is a multidisciplinary field of policy analysis. It considers the medical, economic, social, ethical, legal and organizational aspects of the development, distribution and use of medical technologies.
It supports informed decisions about health technologies by bringing together evidence from different disciplines.
The initiative brings together representatives of ministries of health and other governmental agencies with experience in quality improvement, evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment.
Their professional backgrounds include medicine, pharmacy, nursing, management and economics, with additional expertise in health policy, health economics and quality improvement.
Explore membersTwo milestones in the development of the initiative.
12–13 MARCH 2015
The Green Park Hotel, Ankara
The founding meeting of the initiative.
The kick-off meeting brought together representatives from Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey.
It marked the beginning of the Eurasian HTA Initiative and its regional collaboration.
27–29 NOVEMBER 2015
Haliç Congress Center, Istanbul
Regional collaboration and the Istanbul Statement.
The participating countries returned for the second meeting, with the exception of Azerbaijan. Albania joined as a new member, and Tunisia participated as an observer country.
The Istanbul Statement was signed by all members at this meeting.
The Istanbul Statement was signed by members at the November 2015 meeting.