Bringing patients, providers, industry, and government into evidence-informed healthcare decisions that reflect the needs and values of all Ethiopians.
The best HEOR evidence is only useful if it reaches the people who make healthcare decisions — and if those decisions genuinely reflect the priorities of patients and communities. Patient and stakeholder engagement is how HEOR stays grounded in reality.
In Ethiopia, meaningful engagement of patients, caregivers, providers, policymakers, and industry in healthcare decisions is an emerging priority. The chapter works to build the methods and platforms for inclusive, evidence-informed dialogue across these groups.
This includes patient-preference research — understanding what patients value in their treatments and outcomes — as well as multi-stakeholder forums that bring government, academia, civil society, and the private sector into shared decision-making processes.
The chapter's UHC Day Forum (Gondar, December 2018) brought together 25 participants from government, regulators, academia, hospitals, and students to develop a multi-partner shortage-reporting system — a model for stakeholder co-production of health system solutions.
A planned workshop on patient-preference research methods — including discrete-choice experiments and stated-preference surveys — to help Ethiopian researchers incorporate patient perspectives into HEOR.
Convening government, industry, academia, and civil society around shared HEOR and HTA questions — creating spaces for evidence-informed dialogue on Ethiopia's healthcare priorities.
Join the chapter and contribute to patient and stakeholder engagement in Ethiopian HEOR.