Clinical and Experimental Medicine
About
Profiles
Research
Blog
Gallery
Clinical and Experimental Medicine (CEM) Theme
Clinical Medicine research includes studies directly related to patients, of all ages, in the hospital or community, using relevant methods to determine the disease burden and associated factors, as well as clinical trials testing interventions to improve outcome.
Experimental Medicine refers to investigations in humans, including healthy subjects, to either identify mechanisms of pathophysiology or disease, or demonstrate proof-of-concept evidence of the validity and importance of new discoveries or treatments.
Capacity building is a key objective of our Theme. We have cadres of staff, facilities and equipment that allows us to pivot as an integral part of Malawi national pandemic preparedness.
Senior Research Associate
Dr Felix Limbani is a Senior Research Associate, and expert in social science and health systems at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme (MLW). He is an honorary researcher with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and University of the Witwatersrand. Felix has been the co-Director for Multilink study (2021-2025), leading a multidisciplinary team in NIHR-funded study, designing and testing a system which identifies patients suffering from multimorbidity during emergency assessment in hospitals in Malawi and Tanzania. He is the current coordinator of the African Multimorbidity Alliance. As trial manager, Felix has previously delivered an MRC-funded randomized controlled trial on integrated chronic disease management at in South Africa. Felix has also led the Social Science theme for the NIHR Global Health Group on Sepsis (ARCS), where he contributed to a global Delphi consultation process to develop standards for sepsis care. His recent work has documented important health system and inpatient perspectives during the pivot to COVID-19 management in Malawi, providing valuable insights into the challenges and strategies for managing respiratory diseases in LMICs. His experience includes supervising PhD and Masters students. Felix has authored a range of publications which can be accessed from here, including one on Facilitating high quality acute care in resource-constrained environments: Perspectives of patients recovering from sepsis, their caregivers and healthcare workers in Uganda and Malawi
Malawi Accelerated Research in Vaccines by Experimental and Laboratory Systems (MARVELS)
As a Theme, we have adopted two overarching Approaches in the design of our Methods. These: 1. We support CEM ...
