Meet Dr. Iya Maliki who joined the University of Leeds in October 2024 as a PhD student in Health Economics. He is the recipient of two Commonwealth Scholarships. His first award in 2020 enabled him to undertake a Master’s Degree in Economics at the University of Southampton in the UK which he completed with merit. He repeated this feat in 2024 when he won another Commonwealth Scholarship, this time supporting his doctoral studies in Health Economics at the University of Leeds. It’s special being two times Commonwealth scholar, a UK government scholarship.
Dr. Maliki’s research focuses on modelling and economic evaluation of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) strategies to eliminate the disease in Cameroon. HBV is one of the infectious diseases which significantly burdens on health systems and is a major cause of disability and death worldwide. Cameroon shows a great variability in prevalence of HBV in the country and within different population group. His research involves the development of a dynamic model to estimate the burden of HBV infection over time in Cameroon (e.g. prevalence, incidence, disease cases, HBV-related deaths) at baseline. He will also evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the various interventions with projections of potential benefits and costs to achieve sustainable elimination.
Dr. Maliki who hails from the Adamawa Region of Cameroon, has been one of the inspirations at Open Dreams, stimulating the community especially the medics during Open Dreams Graduate Summits, like the last one held in Yaoundé in September 2024 on the theme, "In Search of Excellence". The FMBS Yaoundé graduate served at the Ministry of Public Health, working across the nation on the Expanded Program on Immunization as Head of the Unit in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E).
Dr. Maliki is a quintessential representation of the ideals of acquiring quality education to address local challenges (taping the global expertise and acting locally tackling some of our most pressing needs and building community resilience on Sustainable Development Goal 3 for Health: SDG3).
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