Helen Mangochi is a Qualitative Researcher and a Global Health Bioethics Network fellow at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme specialising in public health and health systems. She has led and co-led research studies on research ethics, hand hygiene, antimicrobial resistance, and community-based TB care, applying ethnographic and behaviour-centered methodological approaches. Her research has directly informed clinical practices and guided ethical approaches to community engagement in health research.

Helen’s has a nursing background, and her expertise includes qualitative research methods using ethnography and behaviour centred methodologies. She has authored and co-authored publications in peer reviewed journals which can be accessed here including a qualitative study exploring hand hygiene practices in a neonatal unit in Blantyre, Malawi: implication for controlling healthcare-associated infection and how should assent to research be sought in low income settings? perspectives from parents and children in Southern Malawi.