Education

Providing training in health technology assessment and related topics is part of our activities. We arrange seminars and lectures in various national events.

The 8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, will take place in Helsinki 7-10 July 2010. See http://www.eche2010.fi for more information.

The Annual Meeting of the Health Technology Assessment International will take place in Singapore in June 2009. See http://www.htai.org for more information.

In January 2004, Finohta organised a seminar "Towards evidence-based health care" at the Finnish Medical Convention.
The following presentation is available online:

• Evidence-based health policy: Why and how? (J.A. Muir Gray) [ PDF]

A seminar "Cochrane collaboration supporting clinical work" was arranged jointly by Finohta and the Helsinki University Hospital on Jan 23rd 2003. The following presentations are available online:

• From Cochrane review to evidence statement (Dr. Ilkka Kunnamo) [ PowerPoint]
• What is the effect of placebo interventions? (Asbjørn Hróbjartsson) [ PowerPoint]
• Ten years of Cochrane Collaboration (Peter Gøtzsche) [ PowerPoint]