Director, HIV, Hepatitis & Sexually Transmitted Infections, Malawi Ministry of Health
Ms. Nyirenda is a community health and inter-professional health care leadership specialist. She is currently the director of the HIV treatment unit at the Ministry of Health in Malawi. Previously, she was the director of Mzuzu Referral Hospital in the northern region of Malawi, heading the Ministry’s Community Health Nursing Program, while also serving as a nurse educator and principal of a nursing college. She was the principal investigator of the EARNEST ART clinical trial, and is currently a member of the National Health Research Ethical Review Board in Malawi. In 2013, Ms. Nyirenda received a special award of recognition on leadership in quality improvement from JHPIEGO. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Malawi.