Mission Statement

Our Mission is to enhance our understanding of the human condition by exploring how the health sciences, illness and medicine intersect with the arts and humanities in Malawi

The Malawi Medical Humanities Network was officially formed in 2017. We work in partnership with the Art and Global Health Centre Africa, a Zomba-based NGO. We are supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust and the University of Edinburgh.

Our primary objective is to promote the practice of medical humanities scholarship and support our membership base. The Malawi Medical Humanities Network aspires to:

  • Create a sustainable network for researchers, NGOs, government and policy makers, health care practitioners, community and human rights activists, patients, carers, and creative arts practitioners (writers, performers, poets, visual artists)
  • Develop an interdisciplinary, global platform that shares and promotes work relating to the intersection between health and humanities within Malawi, beyond the boundaries of disciplines
  • Provide opportunities to further develop skills and subject matter expertise, organise teaching activities, share resources pertaining to medical humanities training and funding opportunities, facilitate strategic partnerships, create  meeting space for events, projects and collaborative endeavours and foster a robust community of like minded individuals and groups
  • Offer a public-facing online identity and platform for members who wish to share and showcase their work to the general public; artistic, academic or research orientated
  • Promote culturally sensitive and informed partnerships within arts and health care practices through the inclusion and expansion of shared values and customs. This includes encouraging diversity of thought, cultures and practices as a means to improve healthcare initiatives nationwide, and lead discourses on what it means to be healthy in an African context

Latest Posts

Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Global Histories of HIV/AIDS Campaigning in South Africa – Deadline 16 March 2025

Applications are invited for a UKRI-funded position of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. The role holder will examine the history of the global connections of HIV and AIDS activists in South Africa, particularly with HIV and AIDS activists in Western Europe, including the UK, but also other parts of the world, […]

Malawi Medical Humanities Network (MMHN) Hosts Internal Workshop at Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST)

by Saffie Chirambo, Malawi Medical Humanities Network Project Assistant On December 20th, 2024, the Medical Humanities Project: Collaboration, Crossover and Community Care under the MMHN at MUST held a productive foundational and creative Internal Workshop. The primary objective of this event was to build capacity among   stakeholders in the academia specifically staff and students from […]

Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa, from the Institute for Advanced Studies, UCL

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