Jacqueline Madalitso Huwa MBBS, MSc is a physician and public health specialist, currently working with Lighthouse Trust as research manager. She has more than 10 years of experience coordinating HIV clinical research at Johns Hopkins research project and Malawi Liverpool welcome trust, where she has coordinated studies on HIV and kaposi’s sarcoma, HIV and tuberculosis, second line and third line ART, HIV and non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and diabetes.  Her main area of interest is in HIV clinical research, HIV implementation science research, and use of digital health technology to support and improve health services delivery. As research manager under Lighthouse Trust, she is responsible for strategic leadership and research implementation in all Lighthouse centers of excellence (CoEs), and prototype facilities. She co-pioneered the establishment of the research section for LH, setting up of procedures and protocols for research conduct and implementation within the organization. She is co-investigator on 7 research projects which are being implemented at LH in collaboration with the University of Bern (Switzerland), University of Washington (USA), University of North Carolina (USA), I-TECH Malawi, Ministry of health (Malawi), and World health organization. She is currently a PhD fellow under the Malawi HIV Implementation Research Scientist Training Program at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences.