Elvis Gama is a health economist from the University of Malawi where, since 2003, he has taught economics at the Malawi Polytechnic, and health management at the College of Medicine. Since 2008, Elvis taught health systems management, resource allocations and economic evaluations on the Masters in Public Health program at the Malawi College of Medicine. Currently, Elvis teaches on the role of economics (macro and micro) and health sector reform in reproductive health issues at Queen Margaret University (QMU).
Elvis has a Masters in Applied Economics (Curtin University, Australia) and a Masters in Economics (University of Edinburgh, UK). He is currently undertaking research on the role of the private health sector in health systems, the public-private mix in health care and the financing of health services in the Sub-Sahara region.
Publications and Presentations:
Gama, E. and McPake B.The evolving two tier health systems in Malawi, 7 th World Congress in Health Economics: Harmonising health and economics, Beijing, 12-15 July 2009
Gama, E. and McPake B.The evolving two tier health systems in Malawi, Pre-conference symposium on the role of the private sector in health, Beijing 11 th July, 2009
Gama, E.The Private health care sector and National health accounts and Sixth Global National Health accounts symposium, Advancing methods serving policy, Beijing, July 9-10 2009
Gama, E . Is Service level agreement a solution to poor child and reproductive health problems in Malawi? Malawi Scotland partnership health conference, Edinburgh, June 19 2009
Gama, E . 2008, and Public and Private health providers: Can the private sector benefit the health system in Malawi? University of Malawi Working paper
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