Safari Mbewe MSC
Executive Director
Mr. Safari Mbewe is an accomplished development management and global health professional with over 21 years’ work experience in development projects.
Leadership
Sithembire DundaFMP, MBA, BA
Administration Director
Mr. Sithembire Dunda is an accomplished Administration, Human Resources, Procurement and Facilities management professional with over 14 years of work experience in the Education and Health Sectors. This experience has been in both Public and Not for profit organizations in Malawi.
Hannock Tweya PhD, MSC, BSC
Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Director
Dr Hannock Tweya, PhD, MSc is an Epidemiologist working in Malawi. He has more than 12 years’ experience focused on improving quality of HIV and TB service delivery including conducting operational research.
Christine Kiruthu-Kamamia MPH, BSC
Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Advisor
Christine has a B.Sc in Chemistry from University of Maryland Eastern Shore and an M.P.H in Epidemiology from George Washington University. Christine has over 10 years’ experience working in public health data analysis and program evaluation.
Dr. Tom Heller Specialist Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease
Clinical Advisor
As the Clinical Advisor, Dr. Tom Heller strives to improve the quality of the integrated care at Lighthouse, develop capacity within the clinic staff and also to use the clinic’s experiences of innovative practices to assist the Ministry of Health to inform national policy with regards to all aspects HIV management.
Dr. Beatrice Matanje PhD, MSc, MBBS
Medical Director
Dr. Beatrice Matanje is a Public Health Physician with an Msc in Epidemiology, a PhD in Global Health Implementation as well as over 10 years of experience in health management.
In her capacity as the Lighthouse Medical Director, she provides medical leadership and strategic medical guidance to Lighthouse services including Clinical, Community Health Care services, and HIV Testing and Counselling Services both at the central and District level.
Dr. Kennedy Malisita MBBS, MPH
Medical Director
Dr Malisita has a 24 year work experience in various Malawi government Departments. He is a Medical Doctor with a Master’s in Public Health majoring in International Health obtained from Tulane University in USA.
Limbika Tauzi MPH, BScN
District Support Program Director
Ms Limbika Tauzi is a registered Nurse-Midwife and Public health professional with more than 15 years of experience managing donor funded programs (USAID’s Support for Service Delivery Integration (SSDI) program, the Centre for Disease Control’s work with the Christian Health Association of Malawi on HIV/AIDS, National AIDS Commission (NAC) on HIV/AIDS work, and DFID work on Sexual Reproductive Health with Banja La Mtsogolo).