Health equity in health technology assessment: an interview with Melanie Whittington

On 15th March 2023, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) published a new White Paper called ‘Advancing Health Technology Assessment Methods that Support Health Equity’ that presents key findings from their project looking at ways society can understand and improve health equity in health technology assessment (HTA). Following a workshop at the recent ISPOR 2023 conference (7–10 May 2023, Boston, MA, USA), we spoke with Melanie Whittington of ICER* to learn more about the findings from the project and understand alternative methods that can be employed to assess the impact of a healthcare treatment on equity. For our...