Webinar: Laura Rouncivell & Dr Conor Teljeur - Evidence synthesis for decision making: navigating the chaos of the real world

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Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process to determine the value of a health technology to inform decision-making. A HTA comprises several domains, including clinical effectiveness, epidemiology and economic evaluation, each of which relies on evidence synthesis. When we think of evidence synthesis, we often picture systematic reviews and a formal, well-structured process for gathering and evaluating information. The need to provide a range of timely evidence syntheses on a single topic often requires reliance on data across the spectrum in terms of quality, quantity, and applicability. In this webinar we will discuss some of the challenges in evidence synthesis when the best available evidence may not answer all the questions. Given that a decision maker cannot usually wait for further high quality studies, we will highlight some of the approaches to ensuring that the evidence is presented to address decision uncertainty.

Speakers:

Laura Rouncivell is a Health Services Researcher in HIQA’s HTA Directorate. She has a background in public health and epidemiology, with her postgraduate research focused on evidence synthesis in HIV and women’s health. Prior to joining HIQA, she worked in health system strengthening in South Africa and later in market access consultancy in Ireland, where she developed health technology assessments of pharmaceutical drugs. Laura has a particular interest in systematic review and meta-analysis.

Conor Teljeur is Chief Scientist in HIQA’s Health Technology Assessment Directorate. He has worked in HTA since 2010, working across all domains including developing numerous economic models. He also contributed to several European methodological guidelines. Before HIQA, he worked for 12 years as a health services researcher in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care in Trinity College Dublin, with a particular interest in deprivation and spatial analysis.