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In a world of limited resources and rising health care demand, decision-makers are permanently urged to make explicit, evidence-based decisions about which services or health technologies to fund, for whom, and how much to pay for them. Health technology assessment (HTA) plays a critical role in thi...

On the 14th October, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) released its third report (CIH 3.0). In this blog, we argue the reports’ approach to setting priorities globally and by burden of disease, combined with historically determined and (perhaps) politically negotiated modular healt...

Priority-setting in health is a critical function of all health systems, enabling countries to focus their spending on services that have the biggest impact on their citizens’ health. This works—for every dollar spent on priority-setting, countries get nine dollars of better health system impact. Ho...

Despite the approaching 2025 deadline for the Global Nutrition Targets, nutrition interventions remain fragmented and poorly integrated into the health system. Many countries continue to struggle with integrating comprehensive nutrition strategies into their health benefits packages to achieve unive...

Today we release two new guides that can support countries through the first two critical steps in priority setting reforms: carrying out a situational analysis and then developing a national HTA framework. These are based on the last 10 years’ experience of the international Decision Support Initia...

Over the last 10 years, the international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) has supported countries across Africa and Asia to develop national priority-setting processes. This month, in partnership with 15 iDSI authors, we have published a review of the successes, challenges, and lessons learned du...