AIIMS Bhopal
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
School of Public Health in collaboration with Regional Resource Centre for Health Technology Assessment
Under the aegis of HTAIn, Department of Health Research, MoHFW, Government of India
HTAIn
Programme

Economic Evaluation in Health

Wednesday, 23 September 2026  ·  09:30 to 16:30  ·  SAMVAD (Board Room), Medical College Building, AIIMS Bhopal
TimeSessionWhat it coversFacilitator
09:30 – 09:40 Registration and welcome Sign-in, workshop folder, and how the day will run.
09:40 – 10:00 Where economic evidence enters health policy How decisions about what the health system pays for are actually made in India, who asks the questions, and where clinicians and researchers come into it.
10:00 – 10:40 What economic evaluation is, and what it is not Opportunity cost. The two questions that sort every study into six boxes. Why a trial is a partial evaluation. CMA, CEA, CUA and CBA.
10:40 – 11:20 Framing the question Decision problem, comparator, perspective and time horizon — the four choices that decide the answer before any data are collected.
11:20 – 11:40 Tea
11:40 – 12:35 Costing your own service Worksheet exercise. Micro-costing against gross costing, step-down allocation of shared overheads, annuitising capital, and where Indian unit-cost data already exists.
12:35 – 13:15 Outcomes, discounting and the ICER What a QALY actually is and where its weights come from. Why discounting makes prevention look worse. Average against incremental, and net monetary benefit.
13:15 – 14:05 Lunch
14:05 – 14:45 Thresholds, opportunity cost and budget impact Where a threshold comes from, India's own estimate, and why affordability this year is a separate test from cost-effectiveness.
14:45 – 15:10 Modelling in half an hour Decision trees and Markov models at reading level: why a model exists at all, what a cycle is, and what to distrust in a published one.
15:10 – 15:25 Tea
15:25 – 15:55 Handling uncertainty One-way and probabilistic sensitivity analysis, the tornado diagram, and the cost-effectiveness acceptability curve.
15:55 – 16:20 Group appraisal report-back Eight groups, paired by specialty. Four contrasting pairs of papers presented and defended, six minutes each.
16:20 – 16:30 Close and feedback What to do on Monday, where the material lives, and feedback forms.
The paper you are given at registration Each group receives one published economic evaluation from its own specialty and works on it through the whole day, applying each principle to that paper as it is taught. By the last session the appraisal form in your folder is already complete.
After the workshop The slides, the six interactive widgets, the appraisal form and the full reading list stay online at the address below, free to reuse and to pass on to your own students. Sessions include short live polls, so keep a phone to hand.
School of Public Health  ·  Regional Resource Centre for HTA
AIIMS Bhopal, Saket Nagar, Bhopal – 462020
Web: sph-aiimsbhopal.github.io/intro-economic-evaluation-health