My main focus is on expanding the model of quality-adjusted life years (QALY) cost-effectiveness analysis beyond health, to a broader context within social welfare, using the capability approach as a basis for measuring quality of life ( www.caly.se ).

• I specialize in the following research topics
  • Outcomes research, valuation of instruments for cost-effectiveness
  • Public health and distributive justice
  • Data analysis in R
  • Statistics
  • Systematic reviews

I believe in open source and open science. I am a Swiss researcher, currently residing in Sweden as a PhD student in health economics at the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University.

Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå university (current)

• CALY-SWE project www.caly.se

• Meili, K.W., Mulhern, B., Ssegonja, R., Norström, F., Feldman, I., Månsdotter, A., Hjelte, J., Lindholm, L., 2024. Eliciting a value set for the Swedish Capability-Adjusted Life Years instrument (CALY-SWE). Qual Life Res 33, 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-023-03507-w

• Meili, K.W., Jonsson, H., Lindholm, L., Månsdotter, A., 2022. Perceived changes in capability during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Swedish cross-sectional study from June 2020. Scand J Public Health 50, 102–110. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948211023633

• Meili, K.W., Månsdotter, A., Sundberg, L.R., Hjelte, J., Lindholm, L., 2022. An initiative to develop capability-adjusted life years in Sweden (CALY-SWE): Selecting capabilities with a Delphi panel and developing the questionnaire. PLoS ONE 17, e0263231. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263231

Institut of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern (former)

• Buitrago-Garcia, D., Ipekci, A.M., Heron, L., Imeri, H., Araujo-Chaveron, L., Arevalo-Rodriguez, I., Ciapponi, A., Cevik, M., Hauser, A., Alam, M.I., Meili, K., Meyerowitz, E.A., Prajapati, N., Qiu, X., Richterman, A., Robles-Rodriguez, W.G., Thapa, S., Zhelyazkov, I., Salanti, G., Low, N., 2022. Occurrence and transmission potential of asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: Update of a living systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med 19, e1003987. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003987

• Ipekci, A.M., Buitrago-Garcia, D., Meili, K.W., Krauer, F., Prajapati, N., Thapa, S., Wildisen, L., Araujo-Chaveron, L., Baumann, L., Shah, S., Whiteley, T., Solís-García, G., Tsotra, F., Zhelyazkov, I., Imeri, H., Low, N., Counotte, M.J., 2021. Outbreaks of publications about emerging infectious diseases: the case of SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus. BMC Med Res Methodol 21, 50. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01244-7

• WHO guidelines for the prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241550482

Teaching

• R- a tool for statistical analysis. https://www.umu.se/en/education/courses/r--a-tool-for-statistical-analysis2/ .
• Health economic evaluation methods, Advanced topics in health economics, and Equity in health, as par the Master’s Programme in Public Health with a Specizliation in Health Economics. https://www.umu.se/en/education/master/master-programme-in-public-health-with-a-specialization-in-health-economics/programme-syllabus/

My research interest is intersecting with my interest for IT technology.

Skills

• R, Python
• Webdevelopment
  • Front-end (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) and back-end (PHP, R shiny)
• LaTex, Rmarkdown
• C++, Java (limited)
• Databases: MariaDB, SQLite

Projects

• rineq package for analysing health inequalities in R

• rin port of a gameboy emulator to android

• halaman simplistic plant evolution simulator in C++

• seedbringer Automatization of social media posting for scientific articles, using https://www.diva-portal.org and Python with image processing and AI functionality

• A father of two
• Passionate about cycling and running
• Cooking, baking, photography, and guitar are further hobbies of mine