Dr. Kondwani Chidziwisano

Academic Member

  • PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland
  • Master of Public Health (2009), Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), formerly, University of Malawi, College of Medicine
  • BSc in Environmental Health (2003), Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS), formerly, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic
  • skumwenda@mubas.ac.mw
  • head-eh@mubas.ac.mw
  • +265 888 389452
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Kondwani Chidziwisano is a WASHTED Centre Manager and an academic member in the Department of Public and Environmental Health sciences at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). Kondwani received his PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He is an Environmental, Occupational Health and Behavioural scientist with specific focus in Low- and Middle-Income Settings. He employs mixed methods approaches to understand how compromised WASH impact food hygiene, mental health, child health and behaviours. For over years, Kondwani has implemented research with various partners globally including London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Strathclyde, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), University of Sterling and Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW). In his work, he emphasizes translation to policy and practice through public engagement with policy-makers.

Dr. Chidziwisano has implemented research through various grants such as National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Rickett Global Hygiene Institute (RGHI), Medical Research Council (MRC), UKRI – GCRF, Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and the USAID Advancing Nutrition and has also consulted on WASH for WaterAid, World Vision, Care Malawi, Plan Malawi and Oxfam. Kondwani is working with other experts in developing WHO’s hand hygiene guidelines for the community setting. Currently, he is a Scientific Programme Committee member for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – WASH and Environmental Health group and for the University of North Carolina Water and Health conference.

Get in Touch

  • Musoke, D., Namata, C., Lubega, B., Niyongabo, F., Gonza, J., Chidziwisano, K., Nalinya, S., Nuwematsiko, R., & Morse, T. (2021). The role of Environmental Health in preventing antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries. Environ Health Prev Med 26, 100. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12199-021-01023-2

  • Morse, T., Chidziwisano, K., Musoke, D., Beattie, T., & Mudaly, S. (2020). Environmental health practitioners: a key cadre in the control of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. BMJ Global Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003314

  • 1. Panulo, M., Lamb, J., Luwe, K., Chidziwisano, K., and Morse, T (2023). Guardian Waiting Shelters in Malawi: An Essential but Neglected part of the Health System. https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/83662/

  • Kalitsilo, L., Morse, T., Feasey, N., Malenga., T., Kamthunzi, V and Chidziwisano, K (2021). Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; A Critical Barrier against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Malawi. https://www.afidep.org/publication/water-sanitation-and-hygiene-wash-a-critical-barrier-against-antimicrobial-resistance-amr-in-malawi/

  • Morse, T., Chidziwisano, K., Brenani, M., Tilley, E and Malolo, R (2019). Improved Health and Behaviour through Integration of Food Hygiene and WASH. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34272.00008

Selected Publications

  • Patrick K. Kalonde, Taonga Mwapasa, Rosheen Mthawanji, Kondwani Chidziwisano, Tracy Morse, Jeffrey S. Torguson, Christopher M. Jones, Richard S. Quilliam, Nicholas A. Feasey, Marc Y. R. Henrion, Michelle C. Stanton, Mikhail S. Blinnikov (2025). Mapping waste piles in an urban environment using ground surveys, manual digitization of drone imagery, and object based image classification approach. Environ Monit Assess 197, 374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-025-13675-6

  • Rizk, O., Bick, S., White, B., Chidziwisano, K., & Dreibelbis, R. (2024). Assessing the reliability and validity of pictorial-assisted 24-hour recall for measuring hand hygiene and child faeces disposal: a cross-sectional study in Malawi. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114516

  • Chidziwisano, K., Cocker, D., Mwapasa, T., Amos, S., Feasey, N and Morse, T (2024). Risk Perception and Psychosocial Factors Influencing Exposure to Antimicrobial Resistance through Environmental Pathways in Malawi. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.24-0253

  • Mphasa, M., Ormsby, M., Mwapasa, T., Nambala, P., Chidziwisano, K., Morse, T., Feasey, N., and Quilliam, R. (2024). Urban waste piles are reservoirs for human pathogenic bacteria with high levels of multidrug resistance against last resort antibiotics: A comprehensive temporal and geographic field analysis. Elsivier: Journal of Hazardous Materials: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136639

  • Davies, K., Panulo, M., MacLeod, C., Wilbur, J., Morse, T., Chidziwisano, K., & Dreibelbis, R. (2024). Inclusion of persons living with disabilities in a district-wide sanitation programme: A cross-sectional study in rural Malawi. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(8), e0003005.

  • Panulo, M., Lamb, J., Chidziwisano, K., White, B., Dreibelbis, R. and Morse (2024). Assessment of infrastructure, behaviours, and user satisfaction of guardian waiting shelters for secondary level hospitals in southern Malawi. Plos Global Public Health. 4 (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002642

  • Mwapasa, T., Chidziwisano, K., Mphasa, M., Cocker, D., Rimella, L., Amos, S., Feasey, N. and Morse, T (2024). Key environmental exposure pathways to antimicrobial resistant bacteria in southern Malawi: A SaniPath approach. Science of The Total Environment, p.174142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174142

  • Slekiene, J., Chidziwisano, K. & Tilley, E (2024). Psychosocial factors associated with intention to pursue tertiary education among Malawian students: the moderating effect of mental health. BMC Psychol 12, 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01562-7

  • Hannah W., Mwapasa T., Mphasa M., Kalonde P., Feasey N., Oliver D., Ormsby M., Morse T., Chidziwisano K., and Quilliam R. (2023). Open defaecation by proxy: Tackling the increase of disposable diapers in waste piles in informal settlements. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Vol 250,

  • 114171, ISSN 1438-4639, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114171

  • Cocker, D., Chidziwisano, K., Mphasa, M., Mwapasa, T., Lewis, J. M., Rowlingson, B., Sammarro, M., Bakali, W., Salifu, C., Zuza, A., Charles, M., Mandula, T., Maiden, V., Amos, S., Jacob, S. T., Kajumbula, H., Mugisha, L., Musoke, D., Byrne, R., … Feasey, N. A. (2023). Investigating risks for human colonisation with extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing E. coli and K. pneumoniae in Malawian households: a one health longitudinal cohort study. Lancet Microbe https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00062-9

  • MacLeod C, Braun L, Caruso BA, Chase C, Chidziwisano K, Chipungu J, Dreibelbis R, Ejemot-Nwadiaro R, Gordon B, Esteves Mills J, Cumming O. (2023). Improving hand hygiene in community settings: a scoping review of current international guidelines. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.29.22280518

  • Sammarro M., Rowlingson B., Cocker D., Chidziwisano K., Jacob S., Kajumbula H., Mugisha L., Musoke D., Lester R., Morse T., Feasey N., Jewell C. (2023) Risk Factors, Temporal Dependence, and Seasonality of Human extended-spectrum β-lactamases-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Colonization in Malawi: A Longitudinal Model-based Approach, Clinical Infectious Diseases;, ciad117, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad117

  • Panulo, M., Chidziwisano, K., Beattie, T. K., Tilley, E., Kambala, C., & Morse, T. (2022). Process Evaluation of “The Hygienic Family” Intervention: A Community-Based Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project in Rural Malawi. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6771. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116771

  • Mwapasa T., Chidziwisano K., Lally D., & Morse, T. (2022). Hygiene in early childhood development centres in low-income areas of Blantyre, Malawi, International Journal of Environmental Health Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2022.2048802

  • Phiri, M., MacPherson, E., Panulo, M., Chidziwisano, K., Kalua, K., Chirambo, M., Kawalazira, G., Gundah, Z., Chunda, P., & Morse, T. (2022). Preparedness for and impact of COVID-19 on primary health care delivery in urban and rural Malawi: a mixed methods study BMJ Open 2022;12:e051125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051125

  • Cocker, D., Sammarro, M., Chidziwisano, K., et al. (2022). Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi (DRUM): a protocol for the evaluation of One-Health drivers of Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) resistance in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Wellcome Open Res 2022, 7:55. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17581.1

  • Malolo, M., Kumwenda, S., Chidziwisano, K., Kambala, C., & Morse, T. (2021). Social outcomes of a community-based water, sanitation and hygiene intervention. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development; 11 (3): 483–493. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.264

  • MacPherson, E., Mangochi, H., Tolhurst, R., Simpson, V., Kawaza, K., Chidziwisano, K., Morse, T., & Feasey, N. (2021). A Qualitative Study exploring health workers and patient caregivers’ hand hygiene practices in a neonatal unit in Blantyre, Malawi, implications for controlling outbreaks of drug resistant infections. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/56swt

  • Chidziwisano, K., Tilley, E., & Morse, T. (2020). Self-Reported Versus Observed Measures: Validation of Child Caregiver Food Hygiene Practices in Rural Malawi. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17, 4498. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124498

  • Chidziwisano, K., Slekiene, J., Mosler, H-J., & Morse, T. (2020). Improving complementary food hygiene behaviors using the Risk, Attitude, Norms, Abilities and Self-regulation approach in rural Malawi. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Virginia. AJTMH-19-0528. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.19-0528

  • Morse, T., Tilley, E., Chidziwisano, K., Malolo, R., & Musaya, J. (2020). Health Outcomes of an Integrated Behaviour-Centred Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Food Safety Intervention–A Randomised before and after Trial. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17, 2648. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082648

  • Chidziwisano, K., Slekiene, J., Kumwenda, S., Mosler, H-J., & Morse, T. (2019). Toward Complementary Food Hygiene Practices among Child Caregivers in Rural Malawi. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Virginia. 101(2): 294–303. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0639

  • Chidziwisano, K., Tilley, E., Malolo, R., Kumwenda, S., Musaya, J., & Morse, T. (2019). Risk Factors Associated with Feeding Children under 2 Years in Rural Malawi—A Formative Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health;16(12):2146. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122146

  • Morse, T., Chidziwisano, K., Tilley, E., Malolo, R., Kumwenda, S., Musaya, J., & Cairncross, S.

  • (2019). Developing a Contextually Appropriate Integrated Hygiene Intervention to Achieve Sustained Reductions in Diarrheal Diseases. Sustainability 11(17):4656. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11174656

  • Torondel, B., Balls, E., Chisenga, C., Kumwenda, S., Okello, E., Simiyu, S., Morse, T., Smith, K., Mumma, J., Banzi, J., Harvey, E., Chidziwisano, K., Chipungu, J., Grosskurth, H., Beda, A., Kapiga, S., Estevesmills, J., Cumming, O., Cairncross, S., & Chirengi, R. (2019). Experiences of capacity strengthening in sanitation and hygiene research in Africa and Asia: the SHARE Research Consortium. Health Res Policy Sys 17, 77. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-019-0478-2

  • Chidziwisano, K., Rivett, O., Tadsanaprasittipol, A., McGregor, L., & Kalin, R. (2019). Exploratory study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) contributions to household air pollution arising from improved cookstove use in rural Malawi. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology , 13(1), 36-51. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJEST2018.2582

  • Kalulu, K., Phiri, G., Kumwenda, S., & Chidziwisano, K (2014). “Attainment of Open Defecation Free Status Among Villages Of Nthondo Area in Ntchisi District”. Standard Scientific Research and Essays Vol 2(13): 743-748

  • Kalumbi, L., Chidziwisano, K., & Kumwenda, S. (2014). “Counsellors’ Experience During Training and Home Based HIV Counselling and Testing in Zomba District, Malawi”. Malawi medical journal: the Journal of Medical Association of Malawi, 26(1):1-7. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/mmj/article/view/104155

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