Febbie Tambala-Jamieson: Master of Public Health (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Senior Registered Nurse and Midwife (SRNM),University Certificate in Midwifery (UCM), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Working at: Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) in the School of Nursing, Community Health Studies department

Position: Lecturer

GRNEN:  The Malawi-Alabama Virtual Global Nursing Education Rural Vaccine Project Team leader for Malawi

BRIEF BIO

Febbie Tambala-Jamieson is a Lecturer in Community Health Nursing at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, School of Nursing in the Community Health Studies Department since Aug. 2019. In 2009, she received a minor in Global Nursing from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, followed by her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing in the same year. She earned a Pediatric Assessment Skills from the Royal College of Nursing in Birmingham in 2011, a Postgraduate University Certificate in Midwifery from the University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing in 2013, and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Melbourne in 2018.

Prior to her current position, Febbie served as a Nursing Officer at the Ministry of Health, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital on the Pediatric High Dependency Unit, where she later became the Senior Nursing Officer in the Pediatric Accident and Emergency Department, followed by the Principal Nursing Officer in the Neuro-Surgical Department.

Throughout her career, Febbie has received many awards and accolades, most recently being named “Best QECH Nurse-Leader” in 2019 from the National Organization of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi. She serves as the KCN-BT campus welfare chairperson, is dedicated to the welfare of health workers in COVID-19 centers in Malawi, mentors and assists youths in finding international scholarships, and serves as a GRNEN ambassador. As part of GRNEN, Febbie has led students in a virtual exchange of knowledge and skills with the university of Alabama where they worked on increasing uptake of Covid-19 vaccine, this year, they are working on Health literacy.

In research, Febbie is a certified systematic reviewer by Cochrane and has co-authored in a systematic mapping of mental health studies here in Malawi. She has assisted in many research projects where she gained vast research skills. She is passionate about complimentary/alternative medicine in the management of Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension (Intermittent fasting, low carbohydrate diet and exercises), which she would like to pursue in her PhD. Febbie is also a passionate epidemiologists of the emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19.

Febbie also loves to work with the rural and disadvantaged communities and some of. Her work includes career talks, reaching out to the needy in terms of school fees, and other resources distribution, counselling, teaching rural girls how to sew re-usable sanitary pads for menstrual hygiene and installing tippy taps in rural primary schools to improve handwashing in order to reduce diarrhoeal diseases transmission.