Dr Oliver Mudyarabikwa
Dr Oliver Mudyarabikwa’s subject areas include Public Health Policy; Global Health Leadership; Financing; Health Economics; and Operational Research. He is interested in comparative health systems analysis, health equity improvement; evidence-based health policy, health economics application in planning and financing interventions, ethnic minority healthcare, public-private partnerships and health human resource productivity.
Dr Oliver Mudyarabikwa has over 30 years’ experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He also had senior leadership roles in public health administration, research, and short-term consultancies for the WHO, World Bank and UNICEF in Africa.
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Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
PG Certificate in Higher Education
MSc Health Planning and Financing
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS)
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Awards
Fellow of Higher Education Academy -
Memberships
International Health Economics Association (iHEA)Regional Network for Equity in Health for Southern and East Africa (EQUINET)Health Economics and Policy Network for Africa (HEPNet)
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Research and publications
Most recent research and publications include:
Oliver Mudyarabikwa, Krishna Regmi, Sinead Ouillon, Raymond Simmonds (2021). Refugee and Immigrant Community Health Champions: a Qualitative Study of Perceived Barriers to Service Access and Utilisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in the West Midlands, UK. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01233-4
Mudyarabikwa O., Regmi, K., Ouillon, S., Simmonds, R. (2020). Opportunities and Challenges in Designing a Public Health Knowledge and Skills Curriculum for Refugee and Migrant Community Health Champions in the West Midlands, England (UK). Pedagogy in Health Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379920950178
Krishna Regmi, and Oliver Mudyarabikwa (2020). “Factors in implementation of clinical commissioning policy in improving health and wellbeing and/or reducing health inequalities in the English NHS: a systematic review of the evidence”. Research Square, Systematic Review: Health Policy. Online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-37640/v1
Regmi, and O. Mudyarabikwa (2020). "A systematic review of the factors - barriers and enablers - affecting the implementation of clinical commissioning policy to reduce health inequalities in the National Health Service (NHS), UK". Public Health, Volume 186, 271 – 282
Mudyarabikwa, Oliver, Tobi, Patrick, and Regmi Krishna. (2017). “Public-private partnerships to improve primary healthcare surgeries: clarifying assumptions about the role of private provider activities”. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 18(04), pp. 366-375
Mudyarabikwa O., Regmi K., and Tobi P. (2017). Evidence on public-private partnerships facilitating community involvement in the development of primary healthcare surgeries: lessons from the National Health Service in the UK. BMC Health Services Research Ref.: BHSR-D-16-01331
Mudyarabikwa O., and Regmi K. (2016). Public-private partnerships and efficiency in public procurement of primary healthcare infrastructure: a qualitative research in the NHS UK. Journal of Public Health (2016) 24:91–100
Mudyarabikwa O., and Regmi K. (2014). Public-private partnerships as Decentralization Strategy in Health Sector. Book Chapter – Chapter 10 (pages 161 – 181) in Decentralizing Health Services: A Global Perspective, Krishna Regmi (Editor), Springer Science and Business Media, New York 2014
Mudyarabikwa O. (2001). Equity in Health: Approaches to support the private sector contribution to public sector health goals: Civil Society contributions to pro-poor, health equity policies (WHOCSI /WHOTARSC)
Mudyarabikwa O. (2000). An examination of public sector subsidies to the private health sector: a Zimbabwe Equity in Health Case Study. Equinet policy Series No.3, 1-27 (WHO/TARSC)
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Conferences
2004 Assessment of dual practice for GPs in Zimbabwe – Health Systems Trust (RSA)
2005 Planning for Health human resources in Zimbabwe – EQUINET
2009 Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in primary health care – Geneva Health Forum (GHR)
2010 Community participation in developing primary healthcare infrastructure – GHF
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Research degree supervision
Role of community involvement in developing health insurance schemes for low-income earners in urban settings in Zimbabwe (on-going PhD research degree at Western Cape University, RSA
Mechanisms for private and public sectors collaboration in public health care provision in Zimbabwe (Discontinued PhD research degree at University of Witwatersrand, RSA)
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Henry Programme in Combating Childhood Obesity Amidst the Lockdown Measures during the Covid-19 Pandemic at Coventry University (PhD research degree newly registered at Coventry University)
