Dr. Nonhlanhla Dlamini is the WHO Representative in Malawi since July 2019. Her experience is centred around strategy and policy formulation, programme design and implementation of major public health programmes.
She has worked at different levels of the health care system as well as in academia. Before joining the World Health Organisation (WHO), she was at the Ministry of Health in South Africa where she served as Chief Director. Under this portfolio, she was responsible for policy development, oversight and monitoring and evaluation of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), child health; inclusive of Early Childhood Development (ECD), child nutrition, adolescent health, school health and paediatric HIV.
She led in the design and implementation of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme in South Africa which used the school health programme as the service delivery platform. Prior to this, Dr. Dlamini was the National Director for HIV Prevention Strategies where she was responsible for condom procurement, HIV test kit procurement, STIs and PMTCT. Before that, she was at the Gauteng Province Health Department in Johannesburg, as the first medical manager of the Comprehensive HIV Strategy in 2004 when South Africa first introduced free Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) in the public health sector, thus providing access to treatment for millions of people in the country.
Dr. Dlamini is a registered Medical Doctor and holds a Master’s degree in Medicine, specializing in Paediatrics and a second Master’s degree in Public Health. She is a national of South Africa.
