Assoc. Prof. Christabel Yollandah Kambala

Christabel Kambala is an Associate Professor at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). She holds a PhD (University of Heidelberg, Germany), MPH (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK), BSc Environmental Health (University of Malawi), Diploma in Public Health (University of Malawi).

Currently, she is the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at MUBAS. Her actual work is lecturing, assessing and supervising dissertations among postgraduate and undergraduate learners in Community Health, Behaviour Change Communication, Health Education and Health Promotion.

Aside from lecturing, Christabel Kambala has experience working in diversified areas of Public Health including reproductive health, maternal and child health, sanitation and hygiene promotion. She majorly conducts research in the aforementioned areas including conducting impact evaluations to assess effectiveness of interventions. Christabel is currently co-PI in a study that is measuring gender-based discrimination to better understand maternal mortality in Malawi.

Selected research projects that Christabel has previously conducted include the following:

1. Co-investigator: Digital innovation in climate hazard early warning and related disease prevention for community capacity building and resilience, 2020-2021.
2. Co-investigator: Formative research to gain an informed understanding of barriers impeding access and use of sexual and reproductive health /family planning services, 2019 to 2024.
3. Principal Investigator: Establishing Network to Address Sanitation and Hygiene in the Fishing Communities of Africa’s Great Lakes, January, 2019 to December, 2019.
4. Co-investigator: Evaluation of Malawi’s One Community Program in improving the wellbeing and risk of HIV acquisition among Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Adolescent Girls and Young Women including People Living with HIV and Adolescents living with HIV, 2016-2018.
5. Principal Investigator: Investigating the status and acceptability of Menstrual Hygiene Management Absorbent Interventions in Malawi, 2017-2018.