Recent Events

2024 has been a busy year! Check out some of our workshops!

In March, from the 11th to 15th the WUN RDF Project starts in Malawi. Dr Bessie Malila from University of Cape Town visits Dr Jumbe at Millennium University Malawi, fellow ARISE researcher to start their research collaboration work on user centred telemental health solutions or rural, remote and underserved communities.

Learn more about WUN and their other projects

In the afternoon, Dr Jumbe led another workshop with MU students which included Dr Malila giving a guest lecture on Digital health

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June 2024

Two members of the MHLeC team (Dr Sandra Jumbe and Mrs Gloria Chirwa) travelled to Leeds, United Kingdom to attend the New Research Directions in Global Mental Health: Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Symposium. They were among a select group of world leading researchers from 14 countries chosen to present their research work.


Read an article on the symposium, which features Gloria as part of 4 researchers delivering a talk.

On the first week of June, Dr Jumbe travelled to Hammamet in Tunisia to attend the 2nd ARISE Scientific Conference to share progress on the MHLeC project since its inception in August 2022, to distinguished delegates from across the African continent and the globe.

The MHLeC project is the only project out of 47 under the African Academy of Sciences ARISE scheme being conducted in Malawi and the only one focusing on mental health.


Click here to find out more about the EU ARISE, and their involvement in empowering scientific research in Africa!

In other news...

Dr. Sandra Jumbe shares her life experiences, from being a foreigner in the UK as a teenager to being a black woman in academic research and the field of health psychology on this podcast.