Biography
Joining Health Sciences University as Associate Lecturer focusing on the delivery of Health Economics related units. I have previously taught Economics at the Swansea University and the University of Aberdeen. I obtained my PhD in Health Economics from the University of Aberdeen and I studied my MA in International Economics in at Kyung Hee University, South Korea.
Prior joining the higher educational institutes in the UK, I worked as Research Fellow in Egypt’s Statistical & Research Unit for eight years. I also worked as Graduate Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University.
My work covers topics in public health, health economics, and macroeconomics modelling. Majority of my research explore issues in childhood health in the context of developing countries. My current recent research studies the contribution of conditional cash transfer to stunting reduction in Indonesia. Some of my work seeks to implement filed experiments in the area of mental health.
Experience, Areas of interest/expertise:
I have 5 years of teaching experience in higher educational institutions in the UK. I have garnered experience in the subjects areas such as applied microeconomics, macroeconomics, business finance, public management, health economics and statistics.
I have over ten years’ experience of research. My research area of interest is: health economics, international economics, and macroeconomics modelling.
Qualifications 
PhD. In Health Economics
MA. In International Economics
BA. In Economics and Statistics.
Memberships
Member of Health Economist’s Study Group
Member of Royal Economic Society
Member of International Statistical Institute
Member of Computational & Methodological Statistics
Research interests
My research area of interest is: health economics, international economics, and macroeconomics modelling.
Publications
Mostafa, E., Hussein, R.S. Tobacco and household expenditure in Egypt: insights into socioeconomic inequalities and spending profiles from the Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey. BMC Public Health 25, 598 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21676-w.
“Changing body weight of adolescents in Great Britain: The role of fast-food access” (with Yu Aoki, University of Aberdeen and Neil Lloyd and Sushil Mathew, University of Warwick), 2024.
Conditional cash transfer and stunting prevention: Evidence from Bima, West Nusa Tenggara (2023). Cogent Social Sciences, 9:2, 2260607. (To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2260607).
Petrovic D, de Mestral C, Bochud M, Theodossiou I, Kivimäki M, Vineis P, Mackenbach J, Stringhini S. Mostafa E. (2018). The contribution of health behaviors to socioeconomic inequalities in health: A systematic review. Prev Med;113:15-31. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.05.003. Epub 2018 May 9. PMID: 29752959.
Perrihan Al-Riffai, Naglaa Hassan, Ahmed Fathy, Embareka Farouk, and Amani Abdel-Ghafour (2016). A disaggregated social accounting matrix: 2010/11 for policy analysis in Egypt. MENA RP Working Paper No.2. DC: Washington and Cairo:Egypt: IFPRI.
The Impact of Export Diversification on the Economic Growth: A comparative Study, The International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, April-2016 – ISSN:2278-7763
Export Diversification at All Margins: Case Study South Korea, The International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 6, Issue 2, February-2015 -ISSN 2229-5518
