About CADTH

When Canada’s health care decision-makers want to know what the evidence says, they ask CADTH, Canada’s drug and health technology agency.

CADTH was established by Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial governments to be a trusted source of independent information and advice for the country’s publicly funded health care systems.

Health administrators and policy experts rely on CADTH to help inform their decisions about the life cycle management of drugs, devices, and services used to prevent, diagnose, and treat medical conditions.

CADTH recognizes the inherent and treaty rights of all First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples across this land. We acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past and are committed to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

CADTH staff live and work across the country on lands that are the traditional home to many past, present, and future First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. We acknowledge the deep significance of these territories and are grateful to have the opportunity to work on these lands.

Our experience over the past several years has shown that CADTH has the resilience to thrive in the face of uncertainty and the potential to grow along with the evolving drug and device decision-making landscape.

With the CADTH 2022–2025 Strategic Plan as our guide, CADTH will centre its work around impact — maximizing our efforts to directly inform the decisions and actions undertaken by policy-makers, in the work of research and clinicians, and in the lives of patients.

We will also be working with Health Canada in the upcoming fiscal year on a new 5-year contribution agreement, to ensure we have the resource needed to contribute to the Government of Canada’s efforts to maintain and improve the health of all people in Canada.

As new ideas, new thinking, and new challenges emerge on the health care horizon, CADTH will provide decision-makers with the right evidence at the right time. We’re reshaping how evidence can be used to drive access, quality, value, and sustainability. CADTH will be an incubator of evidence-informed, innovative solutions to help system challenges and a catalyst for future-ready transformations.

CADTH is ready to step boldly out in front, to bring foresight and focus to health leaders, health systems, and the patients and populations they service across Canada, using evidence as a tool for channeling hope into action.