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Laeticia A. Pemba
Felistus Mpachika
Monica Malata
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Velia Manyonga
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Navigating New Horizons: A PhD Student’s Reflections and Discoveries
~ by Velia Manyonga -University of Strathclyde (Scotland) I was very excited when I was offered the scholarship to study PhD in Social Policy with the University of Strathclyde. For years, I harbored a strong desire to further my education, but financial constraints...
PhD Studentships 2023 – 2026
We are delighted to announce that the rigorous selection process for our PhD Studentships has been successfully completed, and we are thrilled to welcome two outstanding candidates to the Global Health Research Group on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing in Malawi....
Laeticia A. Pemba
Health Economics
University of Strathclyde
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Laeticia is a PhD in Economics student at the University of Strathclyde. She is also an Economics Lecturer at the University of Malawi. Interested in development economics, her research agenda has span a range of topics in applied microeconomics including health, agriculture, nutrition and energy.
Prior to joining UNIMA, Laeticia worked as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead at One Acre Fund- Malawi. Previous to her work with One Acre Fund, she was a Global Health Corps fellow and worked as a Monitoring and Evaluations Consultant for ArtGlo.
Felistus Mpachika
Sexual Reproductive Health Rights
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Profile
Felistas Mpachika-Mfipa is a dedicated and driven PhD fellow at the Centre for Reproductive Health at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS).
With a profound passion for adolescent sexual and reproductive health research she embarks on her academic journey with the aim of making significant contributions to this field. Her research intends to shed light on the interventions that support very young pregnant adolescents with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
The objectives are to assess the prevalence of ACEs among very young pregnant adolescents, understand the pregnant adolescents’ lived experiences and assess the acceptability and feasibility of evidenced based interventions that support very young pregnant adolescents with ACEs.
This research has the potential to contribute valuable insights to adolescent friendly health service delivery and beyond.
Monica Malata
Health Economics
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
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Velia Manyonga
Participatory Methods
University of Strathclyde
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