Chrispus Mayora

Chrispus Mayora is a health economist and lecturer in the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management at Makerere University School of Public Health. He is trained and experienced in health economics, economic evaluations, and the costing of health programs. He earned an Honours degree in Economics and a Master of Economics, both from Makerere University, Kampala; he also holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Economics from the Australian National University and a Master of Health Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia. Chrispus is involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, including Health Economics, Health Financing, Health Policy, Economic Evaluation and Decision Making, and cost-effectiveness analysis. In addition, he has undertaken research and consultancy work in areas including costing maternal and child health interventions (e.g., voucher schemes), cost-effectiveness of targeted health interventions, performance-based financing, health systems performance assessment, economic evaluation of HIV care strategies, and expenditure tracking for GAVI-immunization in Uganda, among others. Chrispus is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, with work focused on engaging private informal health markets to improve child health in Uganda.