Dr. Lyson Tenthani is an experienced public health specialist with over 20 years of experience in surveillance and epidemiology. He is ICAP’s country director in Malawi, responsible for the overall strategic leadership and direction of ICAP programs, including leading a multidisciplinary team to achieve the organization’s mission, vision, goals, and objectives. He works closely with the ICAP Malawi leadership team, including principal investigators, to provide strategic vision, management guidance, and oversight to all ICAP’s projects. His key responsibilities include developing program objectives, work plans, and budgets, communicating with the CDC and ICAP in New York, and monitoring program progress. Prior to this role, Dr. Tenthani was ICAP in Malawi’s technical director, leading the establishment of functional national partnerships with the Ministry of Health and overseeing all ICAP’s technical activities. Previously, he has worked with ITECH, University of Washington, leading the coordination of complex HIV monitoring and evaluation (M&E) programs, contributing to establishing the M&E system for the Malawi MOH HIV department. Dr. Tenthani holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, concentrated in Epidemiology, from the University of Bern in Switzerland and a Master of Public Health from Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES), formerly the College of Medicine of the University of Malawi.
