Chisale Mhango

Dr Chisale Mhango, dob 27.10.43, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FRCOG). He has just retired as Senior Lecturer at the College of Medicine of the University of Malawi, in Blantyre.

He studied medicine at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Salisbury, Rhodesia, and the University of Zambia, graduating in 1972. He had his post graduate training at the Royal Free Hospital, University of London UK, obtaining his MRCOG in 1981. His elective year was at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia 1979/1980.

He was the chairperson of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Malawi (2018 – 2022) and also a Board member of the Medical Council of Malawi (2018-2021) , where he chaired the Standing Committee on Profession and Ethics. Since 2007 he serves on World Health Organization’s Regional Advisory Panel for the African and Eastern Mediterranean Regions; he continues to assist in reviewing research proposals seeking WHO funding.

Between 1984 and 1995 he worked for the African Region of World Health Organization, starting off as Team Leader of the Country Support Team in Harare. He was later transferred to teach RH/FP at the Mauritius Institute of Health, and later as Medical Officer of Health in Uganda.

He was later seconded to the African Union in Addis Ababa by UNFPA, where he developed the Continental Policy Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Right in 2005 and the Maputo Plan of Action in 2006. He has since helped update the Maputo Plan of Action for the period 2015-2030.

In 2007-2011 he was head of the Reproductive Health Services in Malawi responsible for developing policy for reproductive health.

In the past three years he has been on the faculty of the College of Medicine. Apart from teaching undergraduate and post graduate students in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, he also supervises students studying for the Masters in Public Health in the area of maternal and child health.

His research interests are on studies on policy change in maternal health. He was recently Principal Investigator of two studies on the “Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Miscarriage Surgery” and Incidence and Impact of Unsafe Abortion in Malawi. The first paper has been presented for publication in the New England journal of Medicine.  He has authored 22 papers published in peer journals and edited 5 books.