Dr Christine Mpundu-Kaambwa
Principal Research Fellow
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dr Christine Mpundu-Kaambwa
Caring Futures Institute - Health and Social Care Economics Group
Position Title – Research Fellow, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research biography
Dr. Christine Mpundu-Kaambwa, is a health economist in the Health and Social Care Economics Group within the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Her research pursuits encompass economic evaluation of healthcare interventions, discrete choice modeling, econometrics, and the economics of child health and disability.
Christine has a multidisciplinary educational background, with academic qualifications in health economics (the University of South Australia, Australia, PhD), public health research methodology (University of Birmingham, UK, MPH), development economics (University of East Anglia, UK, MSc) and economics (University of Zambia, Zambia, BA).
As an emerging leader in child health economics, Christine has a growing list of high-impact publications. An up-to-date list of her publications is available on Google Scholar
Her exceptional leadership and capacity to conduct high-quality impactful research has been recognised by numerous awards including:
- The 2022 Flinders University Vice President and Executive Dean Early Career Researcher Award.
- The 2018 Best Research Paper Award from the Australian Health Economics Society.
- The 2018 UniSA PhD Student of the Year award Runner Up.
- The 2017 UniSA Vice-Chancellor’s and President’s Award.
Christine invites potential Masters or PhD students with an interest in health economics, child health, disability and health services research to contact her via email to discuss potential projects.
Keywords
Health economics, economic evaluation, quality of life, discrete choice modelling, child health, disability
Doctor of Philosophy, Health Economics, University of South Australia, Australia
Master of Public Health, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Master of Science in Development Economics, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of Zambia, Zambia
- 2022: Vice President and Executive Dean Early Career Researcher Award, Flinders University
- 2021: PhD thesis selected as Exemplar Thesis for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, University of South Australia.
- 2018: Best Research Paper Award, Australian Health Economics Society.
- 2018: Runner Up for the University-wide PhD Student of the Year award, University of South Australia.
- 2017: Vice-Chancellor’s and President’s Award, University of South Australia
- 2017-2020: Australian Commonwealth Government Research Training Program Scholarship
- 2017: University of South Australia Business School Research Scholarship
- 2016: Flinders University Student Association Development Grant.
- 2011: The University of Birmingham, School of Public Health Tuition Award.
Dr Mpundu-Kaambwa's role at Flinders University is to undertake specialist health economics research aligned to the research themes of the Caring Futures Institute in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, including health econometric modelling and economic evaluation.
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