Dr Mwayiwawo Madanitsa

IMPROVE Trial Manager

Dr Madanitsa is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and deputy Director of the Training and Research Unit of Excellence (TRUE) in the Department of Public Health under the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the College of Medicine. He is an alumnus of the Joint UoL-UNIMA PhD programme (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool and the College of Medicine, University of Malawi) from where he graduated with a PhD in Tropical epidemiology. His doctoral work evaluated the efficacy of Intermittent Screening and Treatment for the control of malaria in pregnancy as an alternative strategy to Intermittent Preventative Therapy with sulphadoxinepyrimethamine in light of growing SP resistance. 

Dr Madanitsa’s current Post-doctoral Fellowship is focused on furthering his research interests in novel interventions for malaria monitoring and evaluation, accelerated malaria transmission reduction and control of malaria in pregnancy, whilst actively contributing to the development of young talent within the research group and developing as an independent multidisciplinary research leader. Through his research expertise, Dr Madanitsa has actively contributed to health policy at both the global and local levels, having been appointed a member of the WHO Evidence Review Group on Intermittent Screening and Treatment (ISTp) and ACT Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy, as well as a member of the National Malaria Control Task Force under the National Malaria Control Programme of the Ministry of Health in Malawi.