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Janneke Grutters winner of the European HTAcademy scholarship 2010/2011
14 July 2010
After winning the national scholarship, CAPHRI’s Janneke Grutters was voted winner of the European HTAcademy scholarship 2010/2011. Her submitted project on the subject of heterogeneity in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is titled 'Every person is unique: the role of heterogeneity in health technology assessment’.
The project aims to explore the current role of differences between individual patients within economic evaluations and ensuing reimbursement decisions of health care technologies.
This project is part of a larger research project Grutters is working on. She aims to develop guidelines for researchers and decision makers with which they can acknowledge differences between individual patients in the cost-effectiveness of health care technologies, in order to achieve more efficient health care. Grutters, “This prize is simply wonderful. It is a confirmation that I'm on the right track and an extra boost to keep on going.”
In order to support the further development of HTA, the research based pharmaceutical company Pfizer and renowned experts in the field of HTA created the HTAcademy. Following its successful start in Germany last year, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland are now joining the project. The goal of this European programme is to support up-and-coming scientists in their work. These may come, for example, from the fields of medicine, health economics, or medical ethics.
The scholarship programme consists of a national and a European prize of respectively €5.000 and €20.000.
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