Dr Kennedy Uadiale is a medical doctor and a public health practitioner. He is currently a project manager and PhD student at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme (MLW), specialising in antimicrobial resistance and health systems research. With over a decade of experience working in the humanitarian sector across Africa and Asia, Kennedy joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in 2025 and is based at MLW where he is managing the NIHR funded Optimising Antibiotic Usage to Mitigate Antimicrobial Resistance (Opt-AMR) project.

The project aims to develop a rapid and recurrent surveillance system for antibiotic use and AMR prevalence and involving community voices in sub-districts for evidence-based improvement of health system strategies and policies. Kennedy is proficient in the use of epidemiological processes in the management of epidemic prone disease outbreaks.

He is passionate about mixed method research and uses the Lots Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) technique in his quantitative studies.  He has authored/co-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene services within nineteen Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in 2022 and Evaluation of Pastorex meningitis kit performance for the rapid identification of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C in Nigeria.