Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme

27/12/2025

24/12/2025

We are wishing everyone a wonderful holiday break.

See you in 2026!

24/12/2025

What an incredible year it has been at MLW!

We’re continuing to share some festive highlights from our colleagues as they head off for a well-deserved break.

Here is what the team is up to:
Myra is looking forward to some quality time with her family and her dogs! Jani loves to cook and is excited to make some special meals for his family. Benwell will be spending his time at church.

How are you spending your holidays? Let us know in the comments! 👇

24/12/2025

It’s been a whirlwind of a year here at MLW, busy, challenging, yet incredibly exciting. Before we head out to recharge, we caught up with the team to reflect on the highlights of the past 12 months and what everyone is most excited about for the holidays.

Check out some of their favorite moments and holiday plans below! 👇

20/12/2025

Today on Umoyo N’kukambirana, we focus on the growing burden of Shigella in Malawi, rising antimicrobial resistance, the high cost of treatment, and efforts to develop a vaccine to protect communities.

Tune in to Times Radio at exactly 5:00 PM for this important discussion in our final live episode of 2025.
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Lero mu pulogalamu ya Umoyo N’kukambirana, tiyang’ana kwambiri vuto la matenda oyambitsidwa ndi kachirombo ka Shigella kuno ku Malawi, kukula kwa vuto la kupirira kwa kachirombo ku mankhwala, komanso kuchuluka kwa ndalama zomwe zimawonongeka pochiza nthenda ya Shigella.

Tcherani khutu ku wayilesi ya Times lero nthawi ya 5:00 koloko madzulo kuti mukhale nawo mbali pa zokambirana zofunika zimenezi.

13/12/2025

Today on Umoyo N'kukambirana, the discussion continues with a focus on understanding Shigella and the findings of a study conducted to observe it and the possible interventions. Tune in to Times Radio at exactly 5:00 PM to hear the results of this study.

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Mu pulogalamu ya lero, Umoyo N'kukambirana ikhazikika pa zotsatira za kafukufuku yemwe bungwe la Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme lachita pofuna kumvetsa za kachirombo kotchedwa Shighella. Tcherani wayilesi ya Times nthawi ya 5 koloko madzulo ano kuti mumve zambiri zokhudza mayankho omwe kafukufukuyu wabweretsa.

11/12/2025

The Policy Dialogue session for the "Engaging Communities on climate change and it's effects on health in Malawi" project, has concluded.

Participants shared powerful visuals and lived experiences of floods, prolonged droughts and extreme heat. They demonstrated how these climate shocks are driving illness and disrupting their health. As one participant from Chikwawa explained, “We are dangerously exposed. Climate change brings not only new diseases and injuries, but also an economic crisis. As rural residents depending on the land, the harm to our crops and livestock has shattered our farming-based income and security.”

After a day of rich discussion, stakeholders reached a clear consensus to translate research evidence into concrete policies. Agreed actions include supporting reforestation, strengthening health facilities with resilient structures and integrating indigenous knowledge into prevention strategies to ensure no community is left behind.

Closing the event, Dr. Deborah Nyirenda, Project Co-lead, emphasized that this marks only the beginning of efforts to combat climate change, urging all participants to use local perspectives to drive change within their communities and institutions.

Representing the Ministry of Health, Mr. Precious Phiri commended MLW for executing such an important project. He reaffirmed the Ministry’s commitment to working hand-in-hand with MLW and other government agencies.

11/12/2025

In partnership with Ministry of Health, we’re hosting a Policy Dialogue session today session at the Lifestyle Boutique Hotel in Lilongwe under our project, “𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐢”
The event brings together community representatives, researchers, and policymakers to connect lived experience with national action.

Community participants from Blantyre and Chikwawa will be at the center sharing first hand experiences on how climate change is directly threatening livelihoods and health.

Opening the event, Lindiwe Mafuleka, Communications & Public Engagement Manager and co-lead for the project underscored MLW's role in linking research with communities and ensuring evidence informs policy and practice.

Dr. Deborah Nyirenda, co-lead for the project, has provided an overview of the project’s journey and policy relevance. She emphasized that climate change is a lived reality driving disease, food insecurity and displacement and called for urgent action that links climate resilience with health systems.

Representatives from the Ministry of Health, Disaster and risk management, Blantyre & Lilongwe District Health Office are also in attendance

Wellcome Trust Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - LSTM

09/12/2025

“We cannot end schistosomiasis without treating humans, animals, and the environment together.”

This insight comes from Professor Janelisa Musaya while sharing the key findings of the Hybridisation in Urogenital Schistosomiasis (HUGS) study, funded by NIHR-Wellcome Trust, today, Tuesday 9th December 2025, at Chikho Hotel in Dowa.

The study underscores the importance of a One Health approach, addressing human, animal, and environmental health simultaneously when designing interventions. It also highlights that communities in Mangochi and Nsanje rely on rivers—where snails, the carriers of schistosomiasis, thrive—as their primary water sources.

The dissemination event, opened by the Principal Secretary for the Ministry of Health, brought together key stakeholders from health offices, veterinary services, and universities.

06/12/2025

Welcome to the month of December! As we approach the end of the year 2025, Umoyo Nkukambirana brings you a new topic of discussion for this month.

We are wrapping up 2025 with a focus on Shigella, a pathogen that causes diarrhoea in children, and the research conducted by the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme to better understand this organism.

Tune in to Times Radio tomorrow, Saturday 6th December 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM to gain insights into this diarrhoea-causing pathogen, Shigella.

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Takulandirani mu mwezi wa Disembala! Pamene tili kumapeto kwa chaka cha 2025, Umoyo Nkukambirana yakubweretserani mutu watsopano wokambirana mwezi uno.

Tikutsiriza chaka cha 2025 ndi kukambirana za Shigella, kachirombo komwe kamayambitsa matenda otsekula m’mimba. Mu mwezi umenewu pulogalamu ya Umoyo N’kukambirana itambasulanso kafukufuku bungwe la Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme lachita kuti pofuna kumvetsa bwino zokhudza kachiromboka.

Mverani Times Radio mawa, Loweruka 6 Disembala 2025, kuyambira 5:00 koloko madzulo mpaka 6:00 koloko kuti mumve zambiri zokhudza kachirombo ka Shigella.

06/12/2025

We are proud to share that the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme(MLW) has been named the 2nd Best Quality, Productive & Innovative Employer at the 2025 Employee of the Year Awards!

The ceremony took place last night, Friday 5 December 2025, at the Amaryllis Hotel in Blantyre.

A big thank you to the Employers’ Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM) for this recognition and for championing excellence and best labour practices across the country.

05/12/2025

𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃

MLW seeks a highly experienced Climate Health expert to establish, develop and lead our new research area in Climate Health. This role will be based at our Blantyre Head Office, and will focus on Climate, Health and Environment. This is a 3-year contract with possibility of renewal.

For more details regarding the role, please visit the MLW website www.mlw.mw