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Intro
Nyovani Janet Modise is the current  Director of Research and Development Policy and Head of the Malawi office of the African Institute for Development Policy. She is an advisor to the World Health Organization and a former professor of the University of Southampton in Demography and Social Statistics. Nyovani has over 100 peer-reviewed research publications that focus on the social determinants of health in maternal and child health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, food and nutritional security.

She was a key advisor to Melinda French Gates regarding family planning in Africa as Gates prepared for both her 2014 TEDx speech in Berlin and her London Family Planning Summit in 2012. In 2007, Nyovani addressed the 40th Session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development in New York, highlighting the importance of understanding and investing in the health and education of Africa’s next generation.

Sources

https://www.afidep.org/staff/nyovani-madise-ph-d/

https://www.afidep.org/appointment-professor-nyovani-janet-madise/

https://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_gates_let_s_put_birth_control_back_on_the_agenda?language=en

Education and Early Work

Nyovani Modise was born in Blantyre, Malawi to a father who was an accountant and a mother who worked in broadcasting. She attended the University of Malawi completing an undergraduate in Mathematics and Statistics in 1983. She knew from a young age she wanted to teach mathematics. She moved to the UK to pursue UK: a MSc and then a PhD in social statistics at University of Southampton

In 2016, she received an honorary higher doctoral degree (DSc) from the University of Aberdeen in recognition of her research

Career

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