Cell: +265 994 524 495 or Email: info@bmp.kuhes.ac.mw Location: Queens, MAC building
To conduct high quality research that informs malaria control and management, to strengthen the internal research capacity of Malawian medical institutions and to provide clinical support to government health facilities.
Current research efforts focus on severe malaria in African children, malaria during pregnancy, HIV-malaria interactions and drug-resistant malaria. Research on severe malaria is aimed at elucidating how malaria kills and evaluating new treatments based on these finding.
The BMP facilitates capacity building in scientific expertise, postgraduate and clinical training both of Malawian and international scientists. BMP projects have funded post-graduate training in epidemiology, pathology, laboratory science, infectious diseases, and ethics.
The BMP offers patient care services including malaria blood films and anemia diagnosis for children admitted to QECH and on an outpatient basis. The research ward provides clinic care for critically ill children, even those not involved in research studies, and physician staff at the BMP provides clinical care in under resourced departments in QECH.