April 29, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Advance Your Skills in Evaluating Health Equity Within Health Technology Assessment
Health equity refers to everyone having a fair and just opportunity to be healthy, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or other factors. Improving health equity requires addressing the root causes of health inequalities, including access to quality housing and education, labor markets and income, crime, vulnerability, and other social determinants of health. As interest in health equity grows, so does the need to more systematically incorporate, quantify, and evaluate equity-related impacts within health technology assessment (HTA).
Technical Topics Include:
• Methods for evaluating health equity within HTA across different country contexts
• Distributional cost effectiveness analysis (DCEA), including differences between full and aggregate DCEA
• Key requirements for conducting DCEA and interpreting results
• Pragmatic approaches for quantifying equity impacts and understanding associated trade offs
• Challenges and considerations faced by decision makers when incorporating equity into HTA
This Course Includes Practical Tools and Concepts That Can Be Immediately Applied, Including:
• Hands-on exercises enabling participants to estimate and interpret their own DCEA results using an online tool
• Structured activities exploring equity trade offs in real world decision making
• Practical guidance on selecting and applying appropriate methods to assess health equity impacts
PREREQUISITE: A basic understanding of core health economic principles, such as costs, quality adjusted life years, and the purpose of economic models is important.
LEVEL: Introductory
TRACK: Health Technology Assessment
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Schedule:
LENGTH: 4 Hours | Course runs 2 consecutive days, 2 hours each day
ISPOR short courses are designed to enhance knowledge and techniques in core health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) topics as well as emerging trends in the field. Short courses offer 4 or 8 hours of premium scientific education and an electronic course book. Active attendee participation combined with our expert faculty creates an immersive and impactful learning experience. Short courses are not recorded and are only available during the live course presentation.