Professor Henry Mwandumba

Director of the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme (MLW)

Professor Henry Mwandumba is the Director of the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme (MLW) and Head of the Mucosal and Vascular Immunology Group at MLW, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), and Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi, and Honorary Consultant Physician at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool.

Henry studied medicine at the University of Zimbabwe School of Medicine and specialised in General (Internal) Medicine and Infectious Diseases in Liverpool. His research focuses on understanding the immunopathogenesis of HIV associated illnesses to improve patient outcomes. His research has three major themes: HIV, Tuberculosis, and Vascular diseases.

Henry is the Immediate Past President of the Federation of African Immunological Societies (FAIS) and the immediate past Treasurer of the East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Physicians (ECSACOP). His research is supported by funding from Wellcome, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Medical Research Council (MRC), UK, and the German Research Foundation (DFG). He was Cornell University’s Distinguished African Scholar in 2015, was awarded the MRC/DfID African Research Leader Award in 2017, the Royal Society Africa Prize in 2019, and the Weber-Parkes Prize in 2022.