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. The first ten students graduated in April 2025.
To develop a National Oral Health Policy and Implementation Strategy for Malawi. The Policy was launched in April 2022.
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 how The MalDent Project resulted in Malawi’s first home-trained dentists …
The two pieces of video below, created by the Communications Team at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, tell the story of how The Maldent Project operates as a healthcare education partnership.
Documentary Part 1
Documentary Part 2