ABSTRACT
This chapter explores public health and collaborative working against a backdrop of resource-poor and culturally bound contexts. It identifies constraints and barriers to interprofessional learning. Healthcare in Malawi is provided at three levels: primary, secondary and tertiary, by the Ministry of Health, Christian Health Association of Malawi and private clinics. The chapter demonstrates how interprofessional education and collaborative working can promote health and wellbeing for vulnerable groups (i.e. under-fives, those with HIV, pregnant mothers). It explores initiative enabling health professionals to work more closely with rural communities in preventing maternal mortality. Malawi is a landlocked former British colony, in sub-Saharan Central Africa bordered by Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. Primary care focuses on the Health Centres within a community. The chapter looks at collaboration within the arena of public health in a sub-Saharan African context. Interprofessional education is in its infancy but public health is well defined with multifaceted aspects that are totally different to the UK context.
