Outcome: completed global survey to investigate national institutional capacity and BME human resources supporting HTA; differentiation of BMEs/CEs from lawyers and librarians/information specialists -WHO: “Legal, engineering and information science professionals”; capture relevant information regarding BMEs’ activities in preparing HTA reports and in HTA decision-making processes; collection, analysis and presentation of survey results and success/failure stories in HTA; further cooperation and information exchange with WHO, NGOs and other relevant Institutions.
Benefit: improved quality and reliability of HTA processes, reinforced community of BMEs in HTA.
Team: Mario Medvedec, Dan Clark, Oriana Ciani, Julie Polisena and other interested HTAD members and/or collaborators
Deliverables: registry/database of BME practitioners working in HTA; BMEs’ education and employment status related to HTA ; BME-in-HTA success/failure story index; action plan/white paper for future  involvement and needs of BMEs in HTA