Shekinah Munthali-Mkandawire

Lecturer in Human Nutrition

MSc in Human Nutrition (2019), Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)
BSc in Nutrition and Food Science (2015), Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)

Profile

Shekinah Munthali-Mkandawire is a Lecturer in Human Nutrition in the Department of Public and Environmental Health Sciences at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences. She has expertise in health and nutrition-related research, with a focus on evaluating lifestyle factors, project management, monitoring and evaluation, and analyzing policy and institutional frameworks to improve food security and nutrition in developing countries.

Her research interests include nutrient-drug interactions and non-communicable diseases. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Exeter, where her research focuses on developing interventions to support people with type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa to adopt and sustain lifestyle changes.

BSc in Environmental Health
MSc in Environmental Health
MSc in Occupational Safety and Health

Developing interventions to support people with T2D in sub-Saharan Africa to make lifestyle changes as part of her PhD.

Healthy Lives_ Malawi: Intergenerational longitudinal population study of chronic conditions in rural (Karonga) and urban (Lilongwe) Malawi, MEIRU (2022 – 2024).
Healthy Lives_ Malawi: Establishing and strengthening Health and Demographic Surveillance in Lilongwe and Karonga, MEIRU (2022 – 2024).
No-to-Na Trial: Tackling cardiovascular risk in the adolescent life-course through a schools’ salt-reduction intervention in rural (Karonga) and urban (Lilongwe) Malawi’, MEIRU (2019 – 2021).
NUT: Development of nutritional strategies for diabetes prevention in Malawian adults at high diabetes risk in Lilongwe and Karonga, MEIRU (2018 – 2019).

Other Current Engagements

Nutrition and Food Security Facilitator (Volunteer) at Green Girls Platform, a young women-led organization dedicated to empowering girls and young women in the face of climate change (2023- present). www.greengirlsplatform.org
Board Member and Nutrition Advisor for the Youth Empower Foundation, an NGO registered by the Malawi government to help unlock the potential of girls, young mothers and vulnerable groups (2019- present).

Publications

Association between physical multimorbidity and common mental health disorders in rural and urban Malawi: Early results from Healthy Lives Malawi Long-Term Conditions Survey. Nkoka O, Munthali-Mkandawire S, Mwandira K, Nindi P, Dube A, Nyanjagha I, et al. (2024).
A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences. Spake et al., 2024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1422
Effects of exclusive breastfeeding on educational attainment and longitudinal trajectories of grade progression among children in a 13-year follow-up study in Malawi. Mohammed, S., Webb, E.L., Calvert, C. et al. Sci Rep 13, 11413 (2023).
Development and piloting of a primary school-based salt reduction programme: Formative work and a process evaluation in rural and urban Malawi. Phiri N, Cunningham Y, Witek-Mcmanus S, Chabwera M, Munthali-Mkandawire S, Masiye J, et al. (2023).

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