Genesis is an Associate Professor of Perinatal Mental Health and the Executive Dean for the School of Nursing at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) in Malawi. He is a holder of a PhD from University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He is the founding Member of African Alliance in Maternal Mental Health. He is the Editor in Chief for the Malawi Journal of Nursing and Midwifery. He is the Lead Person or PI for multiple projects including eMAMA at KUHeS, INTERSECT Malawi, the Evidence and Impact Group for the IMNH Community of Practice in Perinatal Mental Health, Generations of Malawi Project & Group Antenatal Care Project.

Phadaless Phiri Sinkamba is a Lecturer at the University of Zambia, School of Nursing Sciences, in the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing. She holds a Master of Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration with Sociology. Specializing in Public Administration, Human capital management, and Labour Relations, she has extensive experience in teaching and research. She is passionate about strategic management, human capital management, labour relations, and public policy.

Renatha is a paediatrician, bioethicist and lecturer at the Department of Bioethics and Health Professionalism, MUHAS University. she started her career as a medical officer at Kishapu district council working with both inpatient and outpatients, then she was shifted to Shinyanga regional referral hospital as medical specialist in Paediatrics. She was then transferred to MUHAS as lecturer in Paediatrics. In 2017 she was transferred to Bioethics department. Dr. Renatha is among the five MBE fellows in MUHAS who received Bioethics training from University of Pennsylvania to build MUHAS capacity in Bioethics teaching. She is among the 15 participants of Ethics Teaching Training by UNESCO which took place at MUHAS December 2016. She has conducted trainings, workshops and supportive supervision to both primary and secondary health facilities in Tanzania on reproductive and child health services. She teaches Bioethics, Professionalism and Paediatrics and child health to both undergraduates and post graduate students at MUHAS. Her research interest is ethics in paediatrics care especially adolescents with chronic diseases and reproductive and child health. She completed her PhD in bioethics in 2024 at MUHAS.

Roland is an Assistant Lecturer in the department of Bioethics and Health Professionalism at MUHAS. He is a Philosopher and Bioethicist. He holds master degree of bioethics from Muhimbili University of health and Allied Sciences. He teaches clinical ethics, research ethics, philosophy of bioethics, logic and critical thinking, public health ethics, Global ethics, framing bioethics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, mentoring and supervising MBE students in their attachment, proposal development, data collection and thesis report writing.

Elizabeth Agnes Mwangala. MSc. in Mental Health (Mental Health Nursing); BSc. in Mental Health/Psychiatric Nursing; University Dip. in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences. She is a Malawian Professional Nurse: Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing (PNMHP); and State Registered Nurse and Midwife (SRNM) at Thyolo District Hospital of the Malawi Ministry of Health (MOH). She is a holder of a Master of Science Degree in Mental Health (Mental Health Nursing) obtained at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Malawi. She is the Co-Investigator for the International Survey of Childbirth-related Trauma in Malawi (INTERSECT-Malawi), aimed at assessing childbirth-related trauma and PTSD in a Malawi context. Her ambitions dwells much on the implementation of Perinatal Mental Health programs for its promotion, and for management of Perinatal Mental Health in Malawi and beyond.

Chileshe Mwaba- Siwale (MSc) is a Registered Nurse Midwife. She holds a BSc in Nursing and a Master of Science in Human Anatomy. She is a lecturer  at the University of Zambia. She is also head of Department for Basic and Clinical Nursing Sciences and the chairperson for Quality Assurance for the school. During her tenure of Office as Assistant Dean Undergraduate, she facilitated the approval of multiple programmes. She is also part of the team involved in knowledge translation  to inform policy development) under the Zambia Forum for Health Research (ZAMFOHR) through the support of IDRC. She is currently the grant holder of a project looking at awareness and intention of young male adults to utilize sexual reproductive health services.

Masunga is a Lecturer and Mental Health Nurse Specialist in the Department of Clinical Nursing at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has expertise in teaching, leadership, and research collaborations to serve as a research team member for various projects. For the past eight years, he has contributed to several clinical and community-based mental health promotion, treatment and prevention programs in Tanzania.

Dr. Mduduzi C. Shongwe is a public health specialist, a state registered nurse-midwife, a Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of Midwifery Science Department in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eswatini (UNESWA), where he also teaches Research methods, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Applied research and evidence-based practice. He holds a PhD in Public Health (Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Social and behavioural science) from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, a MSc in Public Health Nursing from Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, and a Bachelor of Nursing Science in Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing with Midwifery from UNESWA, Mbabane, Eswatini. Dr. Shongwe has more than 10 years of clinical, research, and teaching experience. Between 2017-2023, he served as a member of the Eswatini Health and Human Research Review Board of the Ministry of Health. His research interests include socio-behavioural determinants of health, adolescent delinquency, parent-child processes, risky sexual behaviour, sexual violence, and reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH). He has successfully supervised more than 50 undergraduate students, and more than 18 postgraduate fellows and more than 15 postgraduate students. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in international refereed journals and has presented numerous scientific papers in local and international conferences. He is currently an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE.

Cox Lwaka Tamba is an experienced statistics lecturer at Egerton University, Kenya and data analyst, boasting over 15 years of experience in teaching, data analysis and research. With a Ph.D. from Nanjing Agricultural University, he focuses on research and analysis of big data problems. Cox’s work has resulted in development of several R statistical packages and publishing in top scientific journals. Besides his teaching and research work, he is a mentor; mentoring young professionals in his field and in mathematics.

Kestone (♂) is a Mental Health Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Zambia's School of Nursing Sciences, within the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing. He holds a MSc in Mental Health and Psychiatry and a BSc in Nursing with a major in Mental Health and Psychiatry, both from the University of Zambia. His research focuses on mental health, therapeutic interventions, health worker well-being, nursing education, and digital professionalism. He has actively contributed to various research projects and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Stella Emmanuel Mushy is a Lecturer in Midwifery and Women’s Health and Head of the Community Health Nursing Department at MUHAS, Tanzania. She holds a Ph.D. in Midwifery and Women’s Health from St. Luke’s International University, Japan. Dr. Mushy is a global health researcher with expertise in implementation science and currently serves as CoInvestigator on three NIH-funded projects and Principal Investigator for an NIH-funded NIMART project. She also leads a Gilead-funded study (2025–2027) integrating HIV services with economic empowerment for people with substance use disorders in Sober houses in Arusha region, Tanzania. A former Afya Bora Consortium Fellow in Global Health, her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health, including disability, FGM/C, oncology nursing, and HIV prevention.

Dr. Dlamini is a researcher, and nurse-midwife with a PhD in Nursing and over 7 years of research experience on perinatal mental health and maternal health issues. In addition to her clinical and academic roles, she mentors early-career researchers through national health research mentorship programmes. She is passionate about bridging the gap between clinical care and evidence-based practice in low-resource settings. Dlamini is much committed to implementing programmes to better the pregnancy and postpartum experience for all mothers and their families.

Lonia is an associate professor at the University of Zambia. She is a nurse by background, and received her PhD in 2010. Lonia was previously the assistant Dean and then department head at the School of Medicine, and in 2017 the Ministry of Health appointed her as their director of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery. Lonia has a wide research portfolio in mental health nursing and nursing education. She has led international projects including eMAMA and Mental Health Gap Action Programme. She has also led local projects aimed to improve nursing education and practice. ​

Kabwe is registered nurse with a specialisation in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing. She currently holds the position of Lecturer at the University of Zambia, where she also serves as the International Link Coordinator for the School of Nursing Sciences and the Overall Coordinator of Undergraduate Programmes at the Institute of Distance Education (IDE). Currently, she is engaged in the eMAMA Project, which focuses on developing postgraduate curricula in maternal mental health in collaboration with six international partner countries. She is also a participant in the FAME Project, which involves conducting workshops for students on maternal mental health across four countries.

Fortunatus is an Assistant Lecturer under the department of Bioethics and Health Professionalism at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania. He teaches numerous topics of Bioethics to undergraduate and post graduate students. Also, he is involved in mentorship and supervision of research for both, undergrad and postgrad. His interest in research has been in area of clinical and research ethics, environmental ethics, and philosophy of medicine. He has participated in several projects addressing early detection of children with sickle cell and parents at risk of having children with sickle cell. He has also participated in Dartmouth/MUHAS Research Ethics Training.