1. New Methods in Generating Evidence for Everyone: Can we Improve Evidence Synthesis Approaches? CADTH symposium 2016

2. Aim To provide a forum to discuss new methods that can improve HTA decisions in the future Last year we had 2 sessions “Can we better understand how Canadians value health?” “How can be we better conduct and present economic evaluations?”

3. Evidence synthesis Network meta-analysis indirect comparison mixed treatment comparison multiple treatment comparison Discussed for over 25 years (Eddy 1990, Bucher 1997) But major methodological development in past 10 years

4. Speakers Chris Cameron Director, Cornerstone Research Group Petros Pechlivanoglou Assistant Professor, Institute for health policy management and evaluation, University of Toronto Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children Steve Kanters PhD Candidate at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC Director of Health Analytics at Precision Health Economics Areti Angeliki Veroniki Post-doctoral fellow, Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital