T E A M Malawi at Virginia Tech

11/25/2025

TEAM Malawi founders, Dr. Penny Muelenaer and Dr. Andy Muelenaer, recently spoke with the School of Medicine regarding the transdisciplinary research our group does to advance global health. Thank you for being such important team science mentors as we tackle the UN SDGS, here and abroad!

11/18/2025

Malawian friends, please VOTE for our partners at MUST! Best arts university in Malawi and one of our strategic partners. THANK YOU!

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10/15/2025

Vote for the future of healthcare! Tune in tomorrow as students from VT TEAM Malawi and MicroMek present their joint effort to revolutionize Water Sampling for Public Health, Agriculture, and the Environment at the World Food Forum in Rome! Go MadziTech! Follow the link to view and vote!

SEE MADZITECH PITCH AT 4-5:45 PM CEST, 10-11:30AM EST, at the FAO.
https://lnkd.in/erJVYKn6

MADZITECH GOES WHERE NO HUMAN CAN.

10/13/2025

This week the fourth year IKSP class from MUST and TEAM Malawi celebrate a new international publication titled, “Indigenous Knowledge and Visual Communication Convergence to Improve Wellness in Malawi.” Congratulations to lead authors Victor Kamwendo and Alexander Helden Nyasulu from MUST, and Prof. Martha Sullivan and Rachel Robinette from Virginia Tech.

10/06/2025

Amazing work by MUST’s IKSP graduating class of 2026! Thank you for the partnership!

09/18/2025

Congratulations Victor!

09/15/2025

We would love to take this time to celebrate some of our partners across Malawi. Our work is possible because of the strong partnerships with these excellent people and institutions on the ground. You inspire us!

Congratulations to MUST and the Bingu School of Culture and Heritage for opening a campus radio! Intellect on Air!

Congratulations to Victor Kamwendo for completing the first phase of revitalizing CBCCs in the rural west region of Lilongwe. We visited this site during our last student trip!

Congratulations to our colleague from Thyolo District Hospital, Ephraim Ziwoya, on continuing your graduate education at Oxford to work on water management systems!

Congratulations to the students of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices at MUST for your continued dedication to serving the public by utilizing your art skills to generate new public healthcare messages! Thank you!

Congratulations to the team at MicroMek for advancing 3D printing from recycled bottles, representing tech businesses across Africa, and continuing to push the production of radio transmitters and receivers in low resource areas!

09/05/2025

Thank you to Ida Puliwa Mwango, director of the Othakarhaka Foundation in Mulanje, Malawi, for speaking with our student group tonight at Virginia Tech. Thank you for sharing your Malawi success story and inspiring so many people by “passing on the kindness.”