Team

Professor Edward Duncan

Edward is an Associate Professor in Applied Health Research at the University Stirling, Scotland, UK. He has a clinical background in allied health and a PhD in Health Science. His current research, which has attracted international recognition, focuses on complex system evaluations; and the design, delivery, and testing of complex interventions in pre-hospital emergency care settings in both the Global North and in low income Global Health settings. Methodologically Edward is particularly interested in intervention development and evaluation, co-development, consensus methods, and realist evaluation. Edward is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Scottish Ambulance Service.

Dr Linda Chokotho

Linda Chokotho, MBBS, FCS(ECSA)ORTH, MPH, PhD 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.

Professor Wakisa Mulwafu

Professor Wakisa Mulwafu is an experienced clinician and scholar with strong background in teaching and research – 18 years of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at KUHES (formerly College of Medicine).  In the College of Surgeons in East Central Southern Africa (COSECSA), Wakisa is responsible for the postgraduate training in Otolaryngology and various surgical specialties. He has been a Council member and accredited examiner in Otolaryngology for 13 years.

Wakisa is an Associate Professor in Otolaryngology and Executive Dean of School of Medicine and Oral Health and Kamuzu University of Health Sciences.

Wakisa has the ability to lead and work with multi-disciplinary research teams. He has been the Malawi team lead on research projects such as the outcomes of surgery and COVID-19 in Africa (http://www.asos.org.za/). Wakisa was Co-PI in the Chitetezo project which aims at Improving adolescent road safety and reducing road traffic collisions, Co-PI in the MRC/AHRC Global Health Challenges Partnership which aims at developing an interdisciplinary network to develop innovative response and prevention solutions to road traffic related trauma in sub-Saharan Africa.

Lusizi Kambalame

Lusizi Kambalame is a Lecturer in Communication at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi. She holds a Master’s Degree in Theatre and Media in Communication for Development and a Bachelor of Arts Humanities Degree (Drama). She has over 10 years experience in public communication and community engagement through implementation of projects and community outreach activities with funding from United Nations (UN) Women, United States Aid for International Development (USAID), Concern International and Department for International Development (DfID). Her recent community engagement assignment is the SafeRoads Africa Project – a multidisciplinary project aimed at creating local solutions for preventing road traffic collisions in Malawi. Most of her work has been focused on working with communities to create local and contextual solutions to existing development problems.

Dr Greg Mannion

Dr Greg Mannion is a Senior Lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, Scotland. For over 20 years, his interdisciplinary, applied and impactful research has brought together theory and empirical perspectives on rights-based education, intergenerational dialogue, and learning for sustainability. Funders have included ESRC, MRC, Scottish Natural Heritage / NatureScot, RSPB, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, Education Scotland. See: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/255920

Dr Jennifer Dickie

Dr Jen Dickie is an environmental geographer who specialises in using mixed-method approaches to bridge the disciplinary boundaries between the natural and social sciences. She is particularly interested in socio-spatial approaches to understanding how people interact with different environments. Jen has experience working with marginalized communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and social and environmental justice is central to her research.

Gemma Teal

Gemma Teal is a designer and researcher working in the School of Innovation and Technology at The Glasgow School of Art (Glasgow, UK). She specialises in using design to tackle challenges in health and wellbeing. Her work focuses on opening up the design process to include academic researchers from other disciplines, industry partners, health professionals, people with health conditions or members of the public. She uses co-design methods, innovative community engagement and insight gathering tools, workshops, visualisation and prototyping. Gemma applies these approaches to design people centred services, products and digital interfaces.

Professor Elizabeth Grant

Liz has a personal chair in Global Health and Development. She is Director of the Global Health Academy and Assistant Principal of Global Health at the University of Edinburgh. Liz was the Health Advisor for the Scottish Government Malawi Cooperation Agreement. She has led several research programmes with the Malawian Health Service, she directs the UK’s Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance, and leads health partnerships in Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda.

Dr Sikhululekile NCube

Dr Sikhululekile (Skhue) Ncube is an Environmental Scientist with 14 years of practice and research experience in various interdisciplinary projects in Africa, Asia and Europe. She is currently working as a Research Fellow on a public health project focussing on reducing road traffic collisions and improving adolescent road safety in Malawi. Her areas of expertise include ecosystem services and natural capital assessments, climate change adaptation, water resources management, stakeholder engagement and geospatial analysis. She is also experienced in project management, planning and organizing fieldwork, data collection and analysis using various methods. Prior to her PhD, Skhue worked in the NGO sector in Southern Africa where she implemented humanitarian and development projects and facilitated capacity building and training workshops to various development sector stakeholders.

Liam Dillon

Liam Dillon is a Research Assistant working for Dr. Jennifer Dickie, senior lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Liam is responsible for managing the geospatial data for the Chitetezo project as well as supporting research planning and logistics. New to the field of research, Liam comes from a background of natural sciences and geomatics, specialising in geospatial analysis and GIS. He is working on capacity building and developing research skills that will be useful in the current and future projects.

Roselyn Dzanja

Roselyn Dzanja is an experienced community engagement practitioner with a strong background in academia – 5 years teaching undergraduate level at the University of Malawi. She defended a Master’s Degree in Theatre and Media in Communication for Development and holds a Bachelor of Arts Humanities degree (Drama). Roselyn’s work is characterised by working with young people and vulnerable groups using art-based techniques for advocacy, empowerment and creating local solutions to existing health and social-economic problems.