- Research Projects
- Synopsis of current research projects
Synopsis of current research projects
Prevention and screening
Effectiveness of health warning labels on alcoholic beverages: A systematic review with a narrative analysis for Austria
Project leaders: Aline Dragosits
Project team: Jule Anna Pleyer
Madlen Maierhofer
Duration: Q4 2025 to Q2 2026
Language: English (with German summary)
High tech medicine
Bewertung medizinischer Einzelleistungen – MEL 2026
Project leaders: Julia Kern-Kim
Project co-operation: AIHTA staff for individual reviews
Duration: October 2025 – February 2026
Publication: July 15th, each year
Health economics
Preparatory Work for an Austrian Health Economic Guideline
Project leaders: Sarah Wolf
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier, Diana Szivakova, Sarah Wolf
Duration: February 2025 – January 2026
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: AIHTA Project Report No. 181b: https://eprints.aihta.at/1606/
Psychological & psychiatric interventions
FALCO: Fighting Addictions, improving Lives: COmprehensive drug rehabilitation with music
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Lucia Gassner
Authors: Gassner L1, Bidzan-Bluma I2, Makurat D2, Karshikofffrom B3, Magel F4, Svensden TS5, Bieleninik L2, Erga AH3, Zechmeister-Koss I1
Affiliations: 1Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment GmbH, Austria; 2University of Gdansk, Poland; 3University of Stavanger, Norway; 4Anton Proksch Institute, Austria; 5Regional Center for Substance Use Research, Norway
Research area: Psychological & psychiatric interventions
Project leader: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Principal investigator: Catherine Lourdes Dy (NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS)
Further project partners: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS (NO, coordinator), Universitetet I Bergen (NO), Helse Stavanger HF (NO), Sykehuset Innlandet HF (NO), Universität Wien (AT), Stiftung Anton Proksch Institut Wien (AT), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (AT), HAT Austria – Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment GmbH (AT), Herzog College (IL), Bar Ilan University (IL), Universita Degli Studi Di Pavia (IT), Uniwersytet Gdanski (PL), Fundacio Institut d’Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge (ES), Universitat de Girona (ES), Fundacio Institut d’Investigacio Biomedica de Girona Doctor Josep Trueta (ES), Fundació Sanitària d’Igualda (ES), Universität Zürich (CH)
This AIHTA third-party funding is part of a Horizon-Europe project (grant number 101155881)
Duration: January 2025 to December 2029
Language: English
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 178: https://eprints.aihta.at/1607/
European collaboration
HTA Capacity Building (HAG insight)
Project leaders: Judit Erdös
Project team: Judit Erdös
Project lead: Agenas, Italy
Project team: Consortium of 15 HTA institutes; AIHTA: Judit Erdös
Duration: November 2024 – February 2027
European collaboration
ASSESS-DHT: Development and Harmonisation of Methodologies for Assessing Digital Health Technologies in Europe (2024-2026)
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Gregor Goetz, Yui Hidaka
Project leader: Claudia Wild
Duration: 01/2024 – 12/2026
Language: English
Health economics
Establishing a Reference Unit Costs catalogue for the optimized evaluation and planning of mental healthcare in Vienna (STREAMLINE)
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss, Christoph Strohmaier
Principal investigator: Judit Simon (MUW)
This third-party funded project is part of a WWTF project in cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna (MUW) - Centre for Public Health/Department of Health Economics, Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, AT; Universidad Loyola Andaluciá, ES.
Duration: April 2023 to December 2025
HTA-methods & steering instruments
HTA Information Service
Project leaders: Reinhard Jeindl, Julia Mayer-Ferbas
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Julia Mayer-Ferbas
Duration: Since January 2023, continuously
HTA-methods & steering instruments
HTAR (HTA-Regulation): Implementation in Austria
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss, Sabine Ettinger, Gregor Goetz, Judit Erdös
Duration: ongoing (4 PM)
Language: German
Psychological & psychiatric interventions
Co-designing perinatal mental health support in Tyrol
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Principal investigator: Jean Paul (Medical University Innsbruck)
Further partners: University Innsbruck, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rehabilitation Research
This AIHTA third-party funding is part of a larger FWF-Project
Duration: April 2022 to March 2027
Language: English and German
Publications:
1. Review on peripartal and infant mental health care models and pathways
