Sigrid Droste Ethics Award

Award Background

The Sigrid Droste Ethics Award was established in 2022, in memory of Sigrid Droste. Sigrid came from an initial background in Medical Geography and Cartography and found her way through medical information retrieval to Health Technology Assessment (HTA).

Being chronically ill herself, the problems of translating evidence into everyday patient care were her daily necessity. This led to her main interest in the ethics of HTA, where she achieved a high level of expertise. In her last 13 years, Sigrid worked as a senior research associate at the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), the German HTA body.

The Sigrid Droste Ethics Award recognizes Society members in good standing who are making or have made important contributions in ethics in HTA. The Award will only be given in years when a suitable nominee(s) fulfills the Award’s eligibility criteria and is nominated by an HTAi member in good standing.

Because of its significance, this Award is not given every year.

Tiers

This is a monetary Award that has three tiers:

Tier 1 – Career category; for individuals who have contributed significantly to ethics in HTA over the course of their career; Award of €2,000.00
Tier 2 – Early Career category; for individuals within the first 10 years of their careers as judged by their appointment to a position that is related to ethics in HTA and/or their first publication of an article on ethics in HTA; Award of €1,000.00
Tier 3 – Publication category; for author(s) who published a significant contribution to ethics in HTA during the preceding year on the Society’s journal (IJTAHC); Award of €500.00

Nomination Form

If you would like to submit a nomination for the Sigrid Droste Award, please download and fill in the nomination form, and send it to the Secretariat at info@htai.org.

Deadline: Nominations must be submitted by December 15..

Download the Nomination Form

Additional Information

For more information, download the policy and procedure document.

Award Policy & Procedure

Awarded Recipients

2025

Dario Sacchini
Department of Healthcare Surveillance and Bioethics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) | Italy
Tier 1 – Career category

2024

Lars Sandman
National Centre for Priorities in Health, Linköping University | Sweden
Tier 1 – Career category

2023

Bjørn Morten Hofmann
Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway
Tier 1 – Career category

2022

Gert Jan van der Wilt
Radboud University | The Netherlands
Tier 1 – Career category

Katherine Duthie
Alberta Health Services | Canada
Tier 2 – Early Career category