Newton Chagoma
PhD Student

Profile

Biography

Newton is a PhD student affiliated with the Global Health Team based at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. His Doctoral research focuses on analysing health system efficiencies with a particular focus on the effectiveness of development aid in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Newton is also a Research Trainee.

Prior to joining CHE, Newton worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Among others, he supported country programs in health systems strengthening especially on expanding access to HIV services and exploring innovative and sustainable models for financing healthcare. He also worked at the National AIDS Commission in Malawi and provided technical assistance in undertaking epidemiological and economic modelling of the HIV pandemic, including monitoring and evaluation of the HIV response.

He holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematical Sciences from the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, formerly the Malawi Polytechnic, and MSc in Health Economics from the University of Birmingham.

Research

Research group(s)

• Global Health

Supervision

• Sumit Mazumdar
• Marc Suhrcke

Publications

• Potential effects of disruption to HIV programmes in sub-Saharan Africa caused by COVID-19: results from multiple mathematical models. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(20)30211-3
• Estimation of the Potential Impact of COVID-19 Responses on the HIV Epidemic: Analysis using the Goals Model. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.20090399 
• Stavudine Toxicity in Adult Longer-Term ART Patients in Blantyre, Malawi. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042029
• Bacteraemia in Malawian neonates and young infants 2002–2007: a retrospective audit. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000906
• Longitudinal lactate levels from routine point-of-care monitoring in adult Malawian antiretroviral therapy patients: associations with stavudine toxicities. https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trt074 
• Factors Associated with Uptake of HIV Testing in Malawi: A Trend Analysis of the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey Data from 2004 to 2016.