Titus Divala

Consultant, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department, WHO

Biography

Dr. Titus Divala is a Clinical epidemiologist and specialist public health physician with interest in identifying, evaluating, and implementing interventions against infectious diseases. His research includes observational studies, randomized controlled trials, and evidence synthesis studies on malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, and COVID-19. Dr. Divala's public health interests extend to developing practice and risk assessment guidelines, and assessing intervention effectiveness.

He has supported public health responses against tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, and COVID-19 in Malawi, the United Kingdom, and at global level. At the World Health Organization, he is contributing his expertise to several key adolescent health initiatives, including the Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescent (AA-HA!), Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA), core competencies for primary care providers, global standards for adolescent health-care services, and the adolescent well-being measurement package.