The Aga Khan University’s Brain and Mind Institute, BMI, is building capacity to provide health economics evaluations to inform research and advise health stakeholders to better understand the economic relations between their medical practice, the healthcare sector, and the national economy. This analysis will focus on the costs and benefits of an intervention, so that health systems and related stakeholders can achieve value for money and reduce waste.
Cyprian Mostert, a health economist, has joined BMI to undertake economic analysis of mental health issues and mental healthcare. “Working with BMI’s implementation science team in East Africa (through a hub in Nairobi, Kenya) and Central/South Asia (through a hub in Karachi, Pakistan), Cyprian will integrate mental health-related economic analysis into research being undertaken by the Institute for Global Health and Development, Institute for Human Development, and Department of Community Health Sciences. We hope our Institute will generate compelling evidence basis for more investments in mental health outside of the narrowly defined healthcare system,” said Professor Zul Merali, BMI’s founding director.
“There are very few of them in the world and AKU is exactly the right institution to pioneer the specialization of mental health economics,” added Dr Carl Amrhein, AKU’s Provost and Vice President, Academic.
Cyprian is well qualified to meet this challenge. He has worked in higher education for ten years, teaching and conducting research for universities and international financial institutions including the World Bank Group (Washington DC), Roche Diagnostics (Switzerland), University of Twente (the Netherlands), University of Maastricht (the Netherlands), Universitat Pompeo Fabra (Spain), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Spain), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and University of Pretoria (South Africa).
The Aga Khan University’s Brain and Mind Institute, BMI, is building capacity to provide health economics evaluations to inform research and advise health stakeholders to better understand the economic relations between their medical practice, the healthcare sector, and the national economy. This analysis will focus on the costs and benefits of an intervention, so that health systems and related stakeholders can achieve value for money and reduce waste.
Cyprian Mostert, a health economist, has joined BMI to undertake economic analysis of mental health issues and mental healthcare. “Working with BMI’s implementation science team in East Africa (through a hub in Nairobi, Kenya) and Central/South Asia (through a hub in Karachi, Pakistan), Cyprian will integrate mental health-related economic analysis into research being undertaken by the Institute for Global Health and Development, Institute for Human Development, and Department of Community Health Sciences. We hope our Institute will generate compelling evidence basis for more investments in mental health outside of the narrowly defined healthcare system,” said Professor Zul Merali, BMI’s founding director.
“There are very few of them in the world and AKU is exactly the right institution to pioneer the specialization of mental health economics,” added Dr Carl Amrhein, AKU’s Provost and Vice President, Academic.
Cyprian is well qualified to meet this challenge. He has worked in higher education for ten years, teaching and conducting research for universities and international financial institutions including the World Bank Group (Washington DC), Roche Diagnostics (Switzerland), University of Twente (the Netherlands), University of Maastricht (the Netherlands), Universitat Pompeo Fabra (Spain), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Spain), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and University of Pretoria (South Africa).