L to R: Jeremy Bagg, Peter Chimimba, Ben Macpherson MSP and Mwapatsa Mipando at the College of Medicine Lilongwe Campus, September 2018
The MalDent Project is a collaboration between the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (formerly the University of Malawi College of Medicine) and the University of Glasgow Dental School. Its core funding is provided by the Scottish Government International Development Programme.
The project has three key aims:
To establish a successful Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree programme at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, to enable Malawi to train its own cadre of dental surgeons.
To develop a national Oral Health Policy and Implementation Strategy for Malawi.
To establish a programme for prevention of dental disease in children, based upon Scotland’s Childsmile model.
The new BDS programme was launched in August 2019. We have established our charity, MalDent Student Aid, to provide additional support for dental students encountering financial hardship and to widen access to the BDS programme.
Listen to the MalDent Project story so far …
This piece of video, recorded at a recent Global Remote and Rural Healthcare Conference, hosted by one of our partner organisations, Bridge2Aid, provides some detailed insight into how the Maldent Project operates as a healthcare education partnership.