Felix Khuluza

Associate Professor Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Malawi Cohort 5

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FFelix is a registered pharmacist, health economist, and pharmaceutical supply specialist with over 10 years of experience in research on medicine quality and pharmaceutical systems in Malawi. He holds a PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Malawi and a Master of Health Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia. His doctoral training was supported through collaborations with CARTA, the Universities of Malawi, Tübingen and Würzburg in Germany, and the Mission for Essential Drug Supply in Kenya. His research focuses on pharmaceutical logistics and supply chain management, with particular emphasis on addressing substandard and falsified medicines. He is currently leading several studies, including projects on countering the prevalence of poor-quality medicines in Malawi, assessing low-cost technologies for detecting substandard and falsified medicines, and investigating pharmacokinetic parameters of ampicillin in pregnant women. Felix has also contributed to pharmaceutical policy and regulation in Malawi. He has worked with the Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority to review and draft pharmacy-related laws and regulations and currently serves as a member of its Finance and Administration Committee, where he participates in policy and regulatory decision-making. His long-term goal is to develop sustainable solutions to the challenge of substandard and falsified medicines in low- and middle-income countries to improve access to safe and effective treatment for vulnerable populations.

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The program appears to have had a positive effect on the author’s research productivity, with a noticeable increase in publication activity during the program compared with the pre-enrollment period. The much larger post-graduation publication record suggests the program may have helped build momentum and research capacity that continued afterward, though some of that later output likely reflects work completed near the end of the program and then published with a typical lag.

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