Lumbwe Chola

Responsibilities

Health Economics

Background

I have worked in low and middle income countries, including Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia conducting health economics research and teaching, as well as strengthening the use of health technology assessment in areas such as maternal and child health and non-communicable diseases. My current work involves providing support to LMICs to strengthen HTA

Projects and publications

Maria Julia Bidonde Torre, Jose Francisco Meneses Echavez, Brian Asare, Lumbwe Chola, Mohamed Gad, Lieke Fleur Heupink, Elizabeth Peacocke, (2022). Developing a tool to assess the skills to perform a health technology assessment. BMC Medical Research Methodology s. 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s12874-022-01562-4
Yot Teerawattananon, Chris Painter, Saudamini Dabak, Trygve Ottersen, Unni Gopinathan, Lumbwe Chola, Kalipso Chalkidou, Anthony J. Culyer, (2021). Avoiding health technology assessment: a global survey of reasons for not using health technology assessment in decision making. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation doi: 10.1186/s12962-021-00308-1
Elizabeth Peacocke, Lieke Fleur Heupink, Katrine Bjørnebek Frønsdal, Elin Hoffmann Dahl, Lumbwe Chola, (2021). Global access to COVID-19 vaccines: A scoping review of factors that may influence equitable access for low and middle-income countries. BMJ Open s. 1-11. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049505
Lumbwe Chola, Lars T. Fadnes, Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen, Lungiswa Nkonki, Victoria Nankabirwa, Halvor Sommerfelt, James K Tumwine, Thorkild Tylleskär, Bjarne Robberstad, (2015). Cost-effectiveness of peer counselling for the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142718
Lungiswa Leonora Nkonki, Emmanuelle Daviaud, Debra Jackson, Lumbwe Chola, Tanya Doherty, Mickey Chopra, Bjarne Robberstad, (2014). Costs of promoting exclusive breastfeeding at community level in three sites in South Africa. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079784
Lumbwe Chola, Lars T. Fadnes, Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen, James K Tumwine, Thorkild Tylleskär, Bjarne Robberstad, (2013). Infant feeding survival and Markov transition probabilities among children under age 6 months in Uganda. American Journal of Epidemiology s. 453-462. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws254
Lumbwe Chola, Lungiswa Leonora Nkonki, Chipepo Kankasa, James Tumwine, Thorkild Tylleskar, Bjarne Robberstad, Jolly Kaharuza Nankunda, (2011). Cost of individual peer counselling for the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-9-11
Lumbwe Chola, Bjarne Robberstad, (2009). Estimating average inpatient and outpatient costs and childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea treatment costs in an urban health centre in Zambia. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-7-16

Lumbwe Chola, (2012). The economics of promoting exclusive breastfeeding in sub-Saharan Africa

Contact

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Visiting address

Sandakerveien 24c, Bygg D, 0473 Oslo

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Lumbwe Chola

Senior Adviser/Health Economics

Responsibilities

Background

Projects and publications

Projects

Scientific articles and book chapters

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