The Interest Sub-Group (ISG) on Disinvestment aims to be a key international centre for sharing knowledge and expertise, both in methods for prioritising and assessing obsolete or low-added value technologies and in the practical application of disinvestment for health systems.

Members of this group are staff members of HTA organizations, government departments and agencies, for profit and not for profit firms, consultants and experts, and all those who use, provide, or otherwise are interested in disinvestment and reinvestment issues concerning obsolete or low-added value health technologies.

The Disinvestment group (DISG) started proposing panels and workshops at the HTAi meeting in Montreal 2008 and was formally established in 2010 as an Interest Sub-Group of HTAi. The DISG has around 50 members working in a wide variety of capacities to support informed decision on disinvestment and promote initiatives or programs in their agencies, organizations and countries.

Group activities

The DISG is active in developing, collaborating on, and sharing information on disinvestment experiences and methods all around the world.

The purpose of this group is to:
1. Formalize a forum of discussion on this topic in HTAi
2. Develop a repository of current experiences and methodological approaches to disinvestment
3. Establish criteria on common approaches to the topic
4. Propose methodological approaches
5. Give advice to members of HTAi and other agencies working in this area.

Membership

All members of HTAi are welcome to join the DISG. Requests to join can be sent via the DISG e-mail listserver.

Please note that non-HTAi members may join the DISG; however requests to join by non-members must be sent to the HTAi Secretariat for confirmation and approval by the DISG chair.

Documents of Interest

ISG members have access to a repository of ISG presentations, guidelines, and methodologixal resouces.

IRG Chairmanship

Dr. Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Chair (Basque Country - Spain)

Dr. Alberto Ruano, co-Chair (Galicia-Spain)

Questions about the work of this group or its membership should be sent to DISG Chair.