Kamija Phiri is a leader in academic teaching and research. He was the founding dean of the newly established School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the College of Medicine (CoM), University of Malawi and primarily responsible for developing its growth strategy. He has previously been Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research where he was responsible for overseeing all postgraduate programs, research activities and linkages with research affiliates of the CoM. He developed the PhD curriculum for the CoM. He has also played a critical role in the establishment of masters’ programs in epidemiology and global health. As a researcher he has broad interest in infectious diseases and nutrition. He is an expert in hospital and population-based trials specifically on malaria and anaemia in children and pregnant women and has established a research centre (TRUE) supporting postdocs and PhD students, research interns and a 100+ member field team with sites across southern Malawi. He is the Principal Investigator of a large consortium on post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children with trial sites in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi and with collaborators in UK (LSTM, LSHTM, Imperial College), Norway and USA. He is also interested in knowledge translation and leads a network of organizations interested in evidence informed decision making in Malawi called EVIDENT. He further engages with Ministry of Health (Malawi) in research and policymaking and is a member of the National Malaria Advisory Board. He also advises WHO on malaria drug efficacy studies and anaemia, and sits on a number of international research funding boards.