Flagship practice area
Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis, local adaptation of published models, and support to health technology assessment processes and benefit-package committees.
Health technology assessment and benefit-package committees are being established across the region, but many still rely on international experts and on evidence built for other health systems. Unit costs, care pathways, epidemiology and comparators are often borrowed without adjustment, and reviewers rightly question results they cannot trace to local data. Decision-makers need evidence that is rigorous, locally grounded and produced on the timetable of a budget or listing decision.
Decision trees, Markov and microsimulation models reporting outcomes in DALYs or QALYs, with full uncertainty analysis.
Multi-year budget impact from the payer's perspective, with uptake and displacement scenarios.
Adaptation of global or published models to a specific country, replacing borrowed inputs with sourced local parameters.
Evidence reviews, technical appraisal of submissions, and methods guidance for HTA units and benefit-package committees.
Local economic sections and budget impact models for submissions to African payers and HTA bodies.
Agree population, comparators, perspective, time horizon and outcome measure with you and, where relevant, the committee that will use the evidence.
Rebuild or audit the model structure in R so that every calculation is transparent and reproducible.
Source local costs, resource use and epidemiology; where local data do not exist, state the proxy used and test it.
Run deterministic, probabilistic and scenario analyses, pass the model through independent quality control and report in line with CHEERS 2022.
Every engagement follows our reproducible pipeline with three expert sign-off gates.
Start here: our free, sourced resources on economic evaluation & hta — methods guides, blank Excel templates and calculators.
It depends on whether a model already exists to adapt, how much local data must be sourced or collected, and the reporting required. After a 20-minute call we send a written proposal setting out the scope, timeline and price.
Adapting an existing model typically takes 3–6 weeks from agreed scope. New evaluations and HTA process support are scoped individually.
Yes. Our reports follow CHEERS 2022, and a completed CHEERS checklist is supplied with every report.
Yes, provided we have access to the model or its full documentation. We rebuild or audit it in R and replace borrowed inputs with sourced local parameters.
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