For Malawi to register remarkable improvement in the health delivery service, there is need for closer collaboration  between local and international health research institutions to  ensure  that the research being done is of high quality a development which can influence policy formulation.

The remarks were made by the Associate Director for the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust MLW Dr Wilson Mandala during the opening of the 2015 annual scientific meeting being held at Makokola Retreat in Mangochi.

The annual scientific meeting which Malawi is hosting for the fifth time brings together scientists from The Malawi Liverpool Welcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine and the Wellcome Trust Liverpool Glasgow Centre for Global Health Research in Liverpool and other international research institutions.