WIDREM CHAPTERS
Focal Person
Mrs Catherine K.Mazimbe
Lecturer at St Luke's College of Health Sciences. BScNM, MPH
Mrs Catherine K.Mazimbe
Lecturer at St Luke's College of Health Sciences. BScNM, MPH
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.
Linly Linje
Lecturer, Malamulo College of Health Sciences.
Linly Linje
Lecturer, Malamulo College of Health Sciences.
Linly Linje Bsc. Is a medical laboratory technologist and a lecturer in biomedical science at Malawi Adventist University, Malamulo campus. She is very passionate about conducting research and improving diagnostic services in Malawi.
She is currently striving to build her academic and research portfolio while working. She would like to focus her research career on both communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as on herbal medicine. Currently she is a postgraduate student in the Medical Laboratory science at Kuhes.
Jacqueline Huwa, MBBS, MPH
Lighthouse Trust
Jacqueline Huwa, MBBS, MPH
Lighthouse Trust
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.
Chifundo Phalyce Chingwenembe
Nurse specNurse Specialist Baylor Foundation – Malawi
Chifundo Phalyce Chingwenembe
Nurse specNurse Specialist Baylor Foundation – Malawi
Excellence and the focal person for WIDREM. I am passionate about providing
quality nursing care to critically ill children and their families as well as children living
with HIV. My research interests are Critical care, HIV, non-communicable diseases
and child health.
Linda Chokotho. MBBS, FCS(ECSA)ORTH, MPH, PhD
Orthopaedic Surgeon Malawi University of Science and Technology
Linda Chokotho. MBBS, FCS(ECSA)ORTH, MPH, PhD
Orthopaedic Surgeon Malawi University of Science and Technology
She is the first female Orthopaedic Surgeon in Malawi and a researcher, currently working at Malawi University of Science and Technology. As a researcher, she has been involved in Violence and Injury and Musculoskeletal research since 2011. She has worked as research consultant with COSECSA Oxford Orthopaedic Link (COOL) project, The World Bank, Ministry of Health in Malawi, and AO Alliance Foundation in projects aiming at improving trauma data quality, trauma and fracture care delivery and pre-hospital trauma care. She is a member of the Core Group for the World Health Organisation (WHO) Mentor-VIP, a global violence and injury prevention mentoring program; and Advisory Board Member of Institute of Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT), University of California San Francisco, USA. She has published widely in international and peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Beatrice Matanje
National Aids Commission (CEO)
Dr Beatrice Matanje
National Aids Commission (CEO)
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Victoria Minofu
Trinity college of health sciences
Victoria Minofu
Trinity college of health sciences
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