Visita de Monica Oliveira. Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at the Department of Engineering and Management of IST, University of Lisbon

BIO

Mónica Duarte Oliveira is Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at the Department of Engineering and Management of IST – the Engineering school of the University of Lisbon – and member of the research team of the Centre for Management Studies of IST. Her research interests include the development of management science models to assist policy and decision makers in health and clinical settings, with a special interest in multicriteria value modelling using participatory processes. She has enhanced and applied management science techniques in multiple public and private organizations. She has published her research in Operations Research, Management Science, and Health Economics and Management international journals. She has been active in participating in international health projects, has been involved in advisory boards from the Portuguese Ministry of Health, and is an active member of the Portuguese Association of Health Economics and of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services. She holds a degree in Economics by the University of Porto and an MSc and PhD in Operational Research by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

TITLE OF THE CONFERENCE

Enhancing Health Technology Assessment through Multicriteria Decision Analysis: A roadmap of methods and tools to tackle challenges in the evaluation of health technologies

SUMMARY

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) brings together evidence to help health decision-makers understanding the relative value of technologies and is key for improving health systems effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability. Several studies have shown the potential of using multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) concepts, models and tools for evaluating technologies within HTA, but there are practical and theoretical issues related with its use in real settings. This talk will depart from a systematic literature review on the studies crossing MCDA with HTA – with the review including an overview of the research developed in the area, an assessment of the methodological quality of studies, and a reflection upon reported difficulties and challenges –, and discuss a roadmap of methods and tools to tackle challenges in the evaluation of health technologies. In particular, aspects related with the development of theoretically sound models that include the perspectives of a large and representative number of stakeholders (going beyond the scope of small evaluation committees) will be explored.