Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai
Help me help you: Potential roles of health economics and health technology assessment to support your research
Biography:
Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai is a Program Leader and Senior Researcher of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Thailand. She is also an Affiliated Scientist at the Knowledge Translation Program (CLEAR Health Economics Unit), St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, in Canada. Her research focuses on how to apply health economics and health technology assessment in the real-world setting as well as how to advance methods in economic evaluation. She has experience conducting economic evaluations using various methods with specific interest in the potential of big data in health economics and health technology assessment to support evidence generation and policy-making process. She has also collaborated with researchers, health professionals, and policy-makers in various areas to help communicate the value of health initiatives using economic evaluation. She has contributed to the training on health technology assessment to support health systems in Asia, Africa, and North America. Dr. Isaranuwatchai is dedicated to the creation and use of evidence in healthcare decision making.
My vision is to achieve population health and high quality healthcare delivery through application of psychological and behavioural sciences and partnership development between stakeholders in academia, health services, charitable organisations and industry. My research is situated within the interdisciplinary space of implementation and improvement sciences, and applied psychology and has been disseminated in over 450 publications to-date.
Learning objectives:
- To recognize questions which health economics and health technology assessment can help answer
- To understand how these methods can support your research and work
- To observe some real-world examples of health economics and health technology assessment in action
Link to recording: coming soon
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