Atupele Mulaga

Atupele Mulaga specializes in Applied Statistics. She is currently a lecturer in Statistics at the University of Malawi and has over five years of experience teaching statistics and statistical software packages, as well as working as a data analyst. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Demography and a Master of Statistics in Economics from the University of Malawi and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, respectively. She teaches statistics to students in Environmental Health, Environmental Science and Technology, Mathematical Sciences, and Commerce programs. She joined the University of Malawi in 2006 as a authors associate lecturer. Before joining the University of Malawi, she worked with Millennium Consulting Group as a research supervisor and with the Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi as a market research officer. What drives her passion for teaching and research is her desire to share the knowledge she has acquired over the years and to generate new evidence from research that can inform major policy changes. Her interests include statistical methods for health expenditure data and analyzing health care expenditure data. As such, she aims to narrow her application of statistics to health economics. She is currently working on spatial analysis and modelling of out-of-pocket health care expenditures.