Helen Mangochi is a master’s in infection prevention and control student at the University College Cork, Ireland and Global Health Bioethics Network fellow at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme. Her interest is in informing evidence-based health care, as well as research practices. 

Over a decade has collaborated with various multidiscipline researchers to improve health wellbeing of the population by addressing emerging clinical and public health challenges in clinical and community settings respectively.  She has a nursing background, and her expertise includes qualitative research methods using ethnography and behaviour cantered methodologies.

Helen 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 sort in low income settings? perspectives from parents and children in Southern Malawi.