Examining the UK HTA Landscape for Orphan Medicines
To mark Rare Disease Day on 28 February, we’re sharing findings from our work examining how orphan new active substances (NASs) are assessed by two of the UK’s HTA [...]
Canadian HTA landscape: Comparing HTA timelines and outcomes for CDA-AMC and INESSS
How do HTA timelines and recommendations compare across Canada’s HTA agencies? At ISPOR Europe 2025, we presented a poster analysing HTA timelines and outcomes for Canada's Drug Agency (CDA‑AMC) [...]
HTA Submission Trends for EMA-Approved Oncology Medicines 2018-2023
How quickly do oncology medicines move from EMA approval to HTA submission across Europe — and how might this change under the EU HTA Regulation? At ISPOR Europe 2025, [...]
Testing the UMBRA benefit-risk tool in a South African agency
Objectives Regulators must balance medicine benefits and risks while ensuring consistency, transparency, and efficiency in decision-making and the aim of this study was to assess UMBRA’s impact on SAHPRA [...]
Assessing Good Review Practices at the FDA Ghana
Objectives To identify the current perspective of the FDA Ghana in the implementation of Good Review Practices, provide a baseline on the knowledge, attitudes, practices, as well as identify [...]
Proposed Model for EAC MRH Joint Review
Objectives 1. To investigate ways in which the regional initiative could be well coordinated.2. To propose an improved model for the East African Medicine Regulatory Harmonisation Initiative joint assessments.3. [...]
Evaluating Quality of Decision Making within the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority
Objectives To assess the quality of the decision-making process followed by regulatory reviewers, explore their perceptions of the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) decision-making approach, and evaluate the usefulness [...]
Frequency and Variation of Clock-Stop During EMA Assessment for Oncology Products – Implication on JCA Timelines
Objectives: The implementation act adopted for the HTA Regulation (HTAR) defined the timelines of scoping, submission and assessment and output of Joint Clinical Assessment (JCA), which will be in [...]
Rare Disease Product Approvals: The Changing Regulatory And HTA Landscape Between 2018-2022
Background Globally, 7,000 rare diseases affecting 300 million people pose development challenges with small patient populations. Developing medicines for rare diseases requires innovation. Despite regulatory incentives, challenges for HTA [...]
Navigating HTA Requirements During Development Through Early HTA Scientific Advice
Background Pharmaceutical companies have been actively taking early scientific advice from health technology assessment (HTA) agencies during development, with the aim to understand the HTA evidentiary requirements. The evolving [...]