School of Public Health in collaboration with Regional Resource Centre for Health Technology Assessment
Under the aegis of
Health Technology Assessment in India (HTAIn), Department of Health Research, MoHFW, Government of India
One-day workshop
Economic Evaluation in Health
What an ICER is, where it comes from, and what it should and should not decide
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
09:30 to 16:30
SAMVAD (Board Room)
First Floor, Medical College Building
No registration fee
Workshop kit provided
About the workshop
Health technology assessment now shapes what the Indian health system pays for,
from the national immunisation schedule to the packages funded under PMJAY. The questions it answers
come from clinicians and researchers, and the evidence it rests on is produced in institutes like
this one. This one-day workshop is an introduction for anyone who wants to read that
literature critically, judge whether a published cost-effectiveness claim deserves belief,
and take part in producing it. It is built around the Indian Reference
Case for health technology assessment, and every worked example is a published Indian
study. Participants work in small groups on one real evaluation from their own field, carried
through the whole day rather than read cold at the end. No prior training in health
economics, modelling or statistics is required.
8
Published papers appraised
6
Interactive widgets
4
Specialty streams
11
Reference Case principles
Programme at a glance
Morning
09:30 – 11:15
Where economic evidence enters health policy
What economic evaluation is, and what it is not
Framing: decision problem, comparator, perspective, time horizon
Midday
11:35 – 13:15
Costing your own service — worksheet exercise
Outcomes, discounting, the ICER and net monetary benefit
Afternoon
14:05 – 16:30
Thresholds, opportunity cost and budget impact
Modelling in half an hour
Uncertainty: DSA, PSA and the acceptability curve
Group appraisal report-back
School of Public Health · Regional Resource Centre for Health Technology Assessment
AIIMS Bhopal, Saket Nagar, Bhopal – 462020
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Workshop highlights
Eight published Indian evaluations, appraised in small groups across the day
A printed costing worksheet for a service in your own department
Six interactive widgets that run on a phone and stay online afterwards
Short live polls in every session, so nobody sits passively
The Indian Reference Case as a one-page appraisal form to take away
Every citation verified against PubMed, with a full reading list
Slides, handouts and widgets remain freely available online
Who should attend
Faculty, senior and junior residents, and research project staff, across departments
Anyone planning, or invited to co-investigate, a cost-effectiveness study
Researchers adding an economic component to a protocol or a grant application
Anyone who reads, reviews or is asked to comment on cost-effectiveness evidence
Departments considering submitting a topic to HTAIn through the Resource Centre
Prerequisites: None. No prior training in health economics, modelling
or statistics is assumed. All exercises are paper-based.
Patrons
Chief Patron
Lt Gen (Dr) Narendra Kotwal, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd)
Executive Director & CEO, AIIMS Bhopal
Patrons
Prof. (Dr.) Rajnish Joshi
Dean (Academics) & Academic Head, School of Public Health
AIIMS Bhopal
Prof. (Dr.) Rehan Ul Haq
Dean (Research)
AIIMS Bhopal
Dr. Kavitha Rajsekar
Scientist-F & Scientist in Charge
HTAIn, DHR
Resource persons
Dr. Abhijit P. Pakhare
Professor, Community & Family Medicine PI, RRC-HTA
AIIMS Bhopal
Dr. Abhijit Rozatkar
Member Secretary, School of Public Health Committee
