Queen Dube

Queen is a consultant Pediatrician and clinical epidemiologist. Until her appointment as Chief of Health Services for Malawi’s Ministry of Health, Queen was the Head of Paediatrics and Child Health at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, one of the largest tertiary hospitals in Malawi a position she has been holding for 7 years.

Queen, a Passionate Pediatrician, and clinical epidemiologist has worked with the Ministry of Health, Saving Newborn Lives ( Save the Children), USAID, WHO, Pediatrics and Child Health Association of Malawi, and UNICEF to improve the quality of small and sick newborn care in district and CHAM hospitals in Malawi. She took a leading role in the development of the “Every Newborn Action Plan for Malawi”. She has also worked with Ministries of Health in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Ethiopia to improve the quality of care for newborns and children in the respective countries through the development of national strategies and training.

Queen, together with a team of pediatricians and engineers, has identified challenges in neonatal care across the Sub Saharan region, developed and implemented new technical solutions at various hospitals in Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, and Nigeria. She teaches medical students both undergraduate and postgraduate. She has led several research studies on the small and sick newborn including- Aetiology and long-term outcome of neonatal sepsis, Antibiotic treatment for neonatal sepsis, Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care, Kangaroo Mother Care innovation, Kangaroo Mother Care follow up and point of care diagnostics for sick and small newborns. She has also done studies on HIV encephalopathy, malaria, diarrhea, and Emergency Pediatric Care.

Queen is a co-principal investigator on NEST360, a multi-institutional initiative to halve in-patient neonatal mortality in Africa. She is also part of various technical advisory panels for neonatal research trials across the globe.

She sits on the global child health task force steering committee and several boards. She is currently co-chair of the global maternal and newborn steering committee (AlignMNH). She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals.

She holds a Bachelor of Science and Surgery degree graduated in 2000 from the University of Malawi College of Medicine, MMED in Paediatrics and Child Health from the same, and a Ph.D. in clinical epidemiology from the University of Liverpool UK.