Prof. Amelia (Mia) Crampin
Prof. Amelia (Mia) Crampin is the Director of MEIRU, with oversight of the scientific activities, laboratories and data management across the organisation.
Mia has been associated with MEIRU/KPS since 1998, living at the Chilumba campus until 2013, when she relocated to Lilongwe. Her background is in Clinical Medicine and Microbiology, specialising in Public Health and Epidemiology.
Mia has published over 200 papers with MEIRU in predominantly in infectious disease and more latterly, NCD epidemiology and has supervised and mentored many early career researchers in Malawi. She is the Principal Investigator of the Healthy Lives Malawi programme, and represents MEIRU in several national working groups and expert bodies within the region and is the contact point for a large number of national and international collaborators.
She is Professor of Global Health Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow and Professor of Epidemiology with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and holds an Honorary position at the Malawi College of Medicine and the University of Toronto.
Read Mia’s profile in the Malawi Medical Journal here: https://wrww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526335/