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EDCTP Career Development Fellow
Global Health Bioethics Network senior fellow and an Associate Group Head for Community Engagement and Bioethics
Dr Deborah Nyirenda is a Global Health Bioethics Network senior fellow and an Associate Group Head for Community Engagement and Bioethics at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme. She has over 11 years’ experience of leading social science research projects on various health topics. Deborah completed a PhD on social interactions among research stakeholders and ethical issues in the context of community engagement in Malawi. She holds a Masters Degree in International Public Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a Bachelors Degree in Education, Humanities from Chancellor College. Deborah serves as a member of the African Academy of Sciences Community & Public Engagement Advisory Group and a reviewer for funding applications. She has published 22 research articles in international journals and guest edited publications on public engagement in low- and middle-income countries (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5867-4687).
Senior Research Associate
health systems specialist and a Nurse/Midwife
A health systems specialist and a Nurse/Midwife by profession with research interests in optimizing delivery and uptake of services including quality management and Implementation Science. Her areas of focus are HIV and AIDS across different populations and Maternal and Newborn Health. Her publication record is available on: ORCID: 0000-0002-3572-3810
Research Associate
PhD Student (Global Health- LSTM)
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Social Scientist
Global Health Scientist
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Blessings M. Kapumba is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Shire Valley Vector Control Project (Shire-Vec) at MLW and LSTM, based in Malawi. He is a Social Scientist and recently submitted his PhD thesis at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His research interests include community engagement and involvement, research ethics in global health, health policy on sexual reproductive health, decolonisation of global health research, infectious disease control, mental health, and implementation science. He is currently working on a policy brief, based on his doctoral thesis, tentatively entitled, “Ancillary care in resource-constrained settings: from the lens of Decolonisation”. The policy brief is an exploration of promoting the practices of ancillary care as a means of decolonizing global health. His publication record is available on ORCID: 0000-0002-8210-3454
Postdoctoral Research Associate