Mr Mwayi Kachapila

Mwayi Kachapila

Institute of Applied Health Research
Research Fellow in Health Economics

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+44 (0)121 414 3170
Email
m.kachapila@bham.ac.uk
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@mwa_yi
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Health Economics Unit
Institute of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Mwayi Kachapila is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Health Economics Unit/NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, University of Birmingham. He has research interest in economic evaluations of surgical interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).

Mwayi's research outputs include economic evaluations of surgical interventions, cost of untreated surgical conditions and strategic purchasing for healthcare. Mwayi holds an MSc in Health Economics from the University of Leeds.

Qualifications

  • MSc Health Economics in Health Economics, University of Leeds 2017
  • Bachelor of Social Science majoring Economics, University of Malawi 2010

Biography

Mwayi Kachapila joined the University of Birmingham in 2019. Prior to that, he worked for the Ministry of Health in Malawi as a Health Economist responsible monitoring and evaluation.

Since joining the University of Birmingham Mwayi has conducted economic evaluations of surgical interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) one of which was published by PLoS One.

Mwayi has developed decision analytic models for assessing the potential cost-effectiveness of perioperative interventions of reducing postoperative complications in LMICs. He assessed the economic burden of untreated appendicitis.

Currently Mwayi is giving health economics input on the planned PENGUIN trial and involved in a project aimed at estimating the economic burden of untreated surgical conditions focusing on LMICs. 

Mwayi supports teaching of the Introduction to Health Economics module by delivering a lecture on economic evaluation in an international context.

Teaching

Research

Research interests

Mwayi’s research interests are mainly on economic evaluations of surgical interventions in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). His most recent research has been focused model-based economic evaluations of perioperative interventions among patients undergoing elective and emergency abdominal surgery in LMICs. His next research output is on the cost-effectiveness of sterile glove and instrument change before closing the abdominal wound to reduce surgical site infections.

Mwayi has finalised two cost assessments. The first assessed the cost of abdominal tuberculosis in India and the second assessed the cost of laparotomy in Nigeria.   

Current projects

Mwayi is currently providing health economics input on the planned PENGUIN trial, which aims at assessing the safety and effectiveness of perioperative interventions among abdominal surgery patients.  

Mwayi is also involved in estimating the economic burden of untreated surgical conditions across the world focusing on LIMICs. 

Other activities

Publications

  • Kachapila M, Ademuyiwa AO, Biccard BM, Ghosh DN, Glasbey J, Monahan M, Moore R, Morton DG, Oppong R, Pearse R, Roberts TE; NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery; ASOS Investigators; STARSurg Collaborative., (2021), Preliminary model assessing the cost-effectiveness of preoperative chlorhexidine mouthwash at reducing postoperative pneumonia among abdominal surgery patients in South Africa, PLoS One, Aug 12;16(8):e0254698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254698
  • NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery., (2021), Feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of Telephone Administration of an adapted wound heaLing QuestiONnaire for assessment for surgical site infection following abdominal surgery in low and middle-income countries (TALON): protocol for a study within a trial (SWAT), Trials22, 471. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05398-z
  • Reuter A, Rogge L, Monahan M, Kachapila M, Morton DG, Davies J, Vollmer S; NIHR Global Surgery Collaboration., (2022), Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis, Br J Surg. Sep 9;109(10):995-1003. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znac195. PMID: 35881506
  • Kachapila M, Kigozi J, Oppong R., (2022), Exploring the roles of players in strategic purchasing for healthcare in Africa—a scoping review, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 97–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czac093

  • James Glasbey, NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, Adaptation of the Wound Healing Questionnaire universal-reporter outcome measure for use in global surgery trials (TALON-1 study): mixed-methods study and Rasch analysis, British Journal of Surgery, 2023;, znad058, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znad058

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