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The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) determination assets hub astatine JIPMER has bagged the 2025 metallic grant successful designation of its sustained show and contributions to evidence-based wellness policy.
A property enactment said the grant was presented by V. K. Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, and Rajeev Bahl, Secretary, Department of Health Research, during the caller HTA conclave “ARISE 2025” astatine New Delhi.
The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) involves the systematic and transparent valuation of wellness technologies, including medicines, vaccines, diagnostic devices, healthcare transportation models, and programmes. This aims to guarantee that wellness strategy decisions are equitable, efficient, and cost-effective.
The ecosystem of Health Technology Assessment successful India (HTAIn) was established successful 2017 arsenic an attached bureau of the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and JIPMER hosts 1 of the 8 Regional Resource Hubs (RRHs), established arsenic a assets centre successful 2019 and upgraded to a Regional Resource Hub successful 2024.
The JIPMER RRH besides undertakes HTA studies commissioned by HTAIn, National Health Mission and authorities governments.
As of 2025, the JIPMER Hub has completed 29 studies, with 10 ongoing, including respective multicenter projects, according to Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, and Officer-in-Charge, JIPMER International School of Public Health (JISPH), who heads the six-member squad astatine the facility.
The squad has conducted 35 nationalist and planetary capacity-building activities and published 24 probe papers successful peer-reviewed journals.
