Fundraising Members

FUNDRAISING SUBCOMMITTEE & IT'S MEMBERS

Fundraising Subcommittee

Responsible for developing and implementing fundraising strategies that ensure the financial sustainability of the network. This includes identifying potential funding sources, building relationships with donors and partners, writing grant proposals, organizing fundraising events, and exploring innovative financing models. The team works to align fundraising activities with the network’s mission and strategic goals, ensuring a steady flow of resources to support its programs, operations, and long-term growth.

Members

Dr. Chapotera

Mentor

Dr. Chapotera

Mentor

Dr Tapiwa Devine Ntwere

Lead

Dr Tapiwa Devine Ntwere

Lead

Dr Tapiwa Ntwere is a project coordinator for the breastfeeding support program under the Kamuzu University of Health sciences (KUHES) formerly known as college of medicine, where she is responsible for research and program implementation. Tapiwa also works as a research intern with Malaria Alert Centre Communicable Diseases Action Centre (MAC-CDAC).She holds a Bachelor in Medicine Bachelor of Surgery from the kamuzu University of health sciences. Her strong belief and passion for mental health is the reason for her desire to pursue mental health research.

Alice Liomba

Member

Alice Liomba

Member

Alice Wangui Muiruri- Liomba is a Research Study Coordinator at Blantyre Malaria Project. She also works as a clinician and has
been coordinating various malaria and HIV studies in children since 2007. Currently she is coordinating a
clinical trial “Treating Brain Swelling in Paediatric Cerebral Malaria ”. Her other work is to ensure that
studies are being coordinated in an ethical manner. Alice is also a hand on clinician currently assisting with
management of paediatric childhood illnesses in the paediatric departments at QECH.

In her research carrier, Alice has co- authored Malaria and HIV studies (both observational and clinical trials
published at the Blantyre Malaria Project since 2012. She holds a master’s degree in public health from
KUHES and has a clinical medicine background. Her interest is in paediatric and child health research. Alice
hopes to pursue a PhD in Epidemiology.

Sangwani Salimu

Member

Sangwani Salimu

Member

I am a Social Scientist with a passion for public health interventions that seek to empower grassroots populations. I hold a Masters’ Degree in Public Health (MPH) from College of Medicine (COM), now Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS).

I am experienced in several research positions from data collection to analysis. I believe that community involvement is central to maximizing the impact of any intervention, just as the approach itself. To this end, I have worked on numerous community- based projects that sought to explore factors affecting community participation in health programs. My most notable work was with mothers to neonates during the peak of COVID-19 (with NEST360) and a mapping exercise of people who inject with drugs in Malawi (with FHI360).

I am also a PhD Student in Global Health registered with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7543-8512

Prof. Mary Miston Kachingwe-Sisya Mbeba

Member

Prof. Mary Miston Kachingwe-Sisya Mbeba

Member

Mary Miston Kachingwe-Sisya Mbeba is an Associate Professor of Medical and Surgical Nursing; Adult Health at Kamuzu College of Nursing of the University of Malawi. She received an Award for Best Research in Hypertension Control Intervention, Prevention of Cardiac Diseases; and was inducted as a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society, Kappa Chapter. She worked as a Head of Medical and Surgical Nursing Department. She was one of the founders of Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organizations (MANASO). In 2005 she won a scholarship to study Advanced Diploma in International Research Ethics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She obtained She was an intervention coordinator in a five years HIV and AIDS collaborative research between. In 2010-2014 she studied with University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria and was awarded Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in Health Studies.

Catherine Kamwela Mazimbe

Member

Catherine Kamwela Mazimbe

Member

Catherine K. Mazimbe is a senior lecturer at St Luke’s College of Nursing and Midwifery with a 10-year experience in teaching adult, child, and maternal health. As a nurse by profession, she is passionate about her career that apart from teaching she also actively involves in health-related research. She has Masters in Public Health (MPH) which was obtained from the College of Medicine in 2021.

Catherine’s research focused on the Effectiveness of HIV disclosure to sex partners in the promotion of safer sex practices among youth living with HIV in the Southern region of Malawi. She is still working on the paper and hopefully, it will be published very soon.