Health Economist

SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (2021–2023)

• Conducted cost-effectiveness analyses using real-world data for economic evaluations.

• Designed and led capacity-building workshops across Africa.

• Lectured master's modules in health economics and decision analysis.

Junior Health Care Consultant

Percept Actuaries and Consultants (2020–2021)

• Advised on health system design and healthcare financing, including policy planning for South Africa’s National Health Insurance.

• Conducted research on healthcare innovation, inequality, and non-communicable diseases.

Medical Writing Editor

Cactus Global (2019–2021)

• Edited and appraised medical research studies for high-impact journals.

Medical Doctor

Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (2019)

• Delivered clinical care in the internal medicine department.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Moolla A, et al. (2024). A cost-effectiveness analysis of a South African pregnancy support grant. PLOS Global Public Health.

• Moolla MS, et al. (2022). Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 admissions during the Omicron-driven wave in South Africa. IJID Regions.

Under Review

• Derivation of a South African tariff for the EQ-5D-5L using a Personal Utility Function Approach.

• Test-retest reliability of the Online elicitation of Personal Utility Functions for valuing the EQ-HWB-S.

Working Papers

• Reimagined pathways for UHC in South Africa: a critical policy assessment of NHI choices by Percept Actuaries and Consultants

• Healthcare Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa (5 briefs) by Percept Actuaries and Consultants

• Primary Healthcare Delivery Innovation in the Western Cape: Achieving COPC using technology, data and innovative service design by Percept Actuaries and Consultants

• Learning the lessons for education from the use of results-based financing in health by Percept Actuaries and Consultants

• Deliberations on the nature and measurement of inequality in South Africa by Percept Actuaries and Consultants

• Inequality, poverty and socio-demographic change in South Africa during 27 years of democracy by Percept Actuaries and Consultants

• The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa (13 briefs) by Percept Actuaries and Consultants

Conference Presentations

• Annual Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) 2024 (presentation and panel discussion) -  How do sales of alcoholic and alcohol-free or low-alcohol drinks change during January? A time series analysis using big data 

• EuroQol Early Career Researcher Meeting 2024 (presentation) - Test-retest reliability of the Online elicitation of Personal Utility Functions (OPUF) approach for valuing the EQ-HWB-S 

• South African National Treasury Meeting 2023 (stakeholder presentation) – The Cost-Effectiveness of a South African Pregnancy Support Grant 

• International Health Economics Association Congress 2022 (presentation) - Tackling the growing pains: Improving the Measurement and Valuation of Child Health 

• Grow Great Summit 2022 - Improving social security in South Africa (panel discussion) - Maternal Support Grant Now 

• Public Health Association of South (PHASA) conference 2022 (panel discussion) - Industry, NCDs and Determinants of Health 

Media Contributions

• The Conversation (2024): Pregnant women in South Africa should be offered social grants – it’ll save the state money in the long run.