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Iya Maliki

Iya Maliki

  • Email: umim@leeds.ac.uk
  • Thesis title: Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Intervention Strategies for Hepatitis B Virus Elimination in Cameroon: A Modelling Study
  • Supervisors: Bryony Dawkins, Dr Edward Webb, Dr Aaron Lim (Bristol)

Profile

My alternative email is iya.maliki@pevcameroon.cm

I joined the University of Leeds in October 2024 as a PhD student in Health Economics Modelling of Infectious Diseases. I am the recipient of two Commonwealth Scholarships. My first award received in 2020 enabled me to undertake a Master’s Degree in Economics with particular focus in health economics at the University of Southampton in the UK which I completed with merit. I repeated this feat in 2024 when I won another Commonwealth Scholarship, this time supporting my doctoral studies here at the University of Leeds in the UK. It’s special being two times Commonwealth scholar, a UK government scholarship.

My 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. My research involves the development of a dynamic hepatitis B transmission model for Cameroon to estimate the burden of HBV infection over time in the country (e.g. prevalence, incidence, disease cases, HBV-related deaths) at baseline. I will also evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the various health interventions with projections of potential benefits and costs to achieve sustainable elimination.

My PhD is being supervised by Bryony Dawkins and Edward Webb, both health economists at the University of Leeds along with Aaron Lim who is a mathematical modeller of infectious diseases at the University of Bristol, UK.

Prior to starting my PhD, I serve at the Ministry of Public Health in Cameroon, working across the nation on the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) as Head of the Unit in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E).

Research interests

  • Health economic evaluation
  • Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
  • Infectious disease modelling
  • Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • Health financing.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Health Economics Modelling, University of Leeds, UK (expected in 2027)
  • Master’s in Economics (MSc), University of Southampton (2021), UK
  • Advanced Master’s in Public Health Methodology (MPH), Université Libre de Bruxelles (2018), Belgium
  • Doctor of Dental Medicine Degree, University of Yaounde I (2016), Cameroon
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, University of Yaounde II (2014), Cameroon

Research groups and institutes

  • Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
  • Academic Unit of Health Economics
  • Health economics