September 2025 HTA ESIG meeting - minutes

· September 18, 2025

Date/time

18-September-2025 13:00-14:00 CET

Agenda

  1. Admin updates – Team setup
  2. Invited talk - “Evaluation of surrogate validation approaches accepted in German health technology assessment”
  3. PSI Session Proposal
  4. Training/HTA handbook - Plan for a course on HTA statistics
  5. Feedback on past events
  6. Upcoming events

1. Administrative updates

HTA SIG Teams in place​

  • Subteams could use folders in General channel or private channels​
  • Please request private channels to Arthur Allignol giving ​
    • Team members emails​
    • Channel name

2. Invited talk - “Evaluation of surrogate validation approaches accepted in German health technology assessment”

3. PSI Session proposal

SIG session proposals to be sent 19-Nov-2025 to conference organizers.

3 session proposals at September meeting

  1. Learnings from first JCAs. Ideally with HTA body, e.g., IQWiG. Discuss data sources, populations, endpoints, comparators, surrogacy and intermediate endpoints
  2. ITC and ECA - what is acceptable, what is not
  3. a session around Cost-effectiveness models

ACTION

Provide session proposal (e.g., a couple of slides) outlining the session and tentative speakers. The proposals will be discussed at the October meeting.

4. Training/HTA handbook - Plan for a course on HTA statistics

Everybody agrees with the idea.

  • Lead needed
  • Nermina volunteered; further volunteers needed.

6. Upcoming events

  • 10th Statistics and Biopharmacy conference (SnB 2025) in Paris. 8 to 10 October 2025. Link

  • ISPOR EU 2025. Attendeed from SIG, please reach out to Arthur Allignol and provide phone number to create a whatsApp group.