Malcolm Molyneux

Malcom Molyneux earnt degrees in natural science and medicine from the University of Cambridge, and graduated in 1967. He then attended Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry for his medical training. He subsequently completed a PhD on the viruses and liver disease in Malawi. In 2019, he was given an honorary doctorate of science by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. == Career ==

After graduating, Molyneux moved to Malawi and in 1974 and began work as a doctor in St Luke's Hospital, Malosa. There he worked research on malaria, especially cerebral malaria in children, In 1991, Molyneaux was invited to help set up the University of Malawi College of Medicine, In 2006, he was awarded an OBE for his work in Malawi healthcare. and worked there as an editor chief of the from 1980 to 1984, In 1995, he wrote chapters on malaria, fevers, amoebiasis, giardiasis, balantidiasis, anaemia, and flukes for the fourth edition of Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine. For the fifth edition, he wrote the chapter "Malaria". In 2009, he was awarded the Sir Rickard Christophers Medal. == Personal life ==

Malcolm Edward Molyneux was born on 20 November 1943 in the Belgian Congo to missionaries Colin and Joyce () Molyneux. As a child he attended the Sakeji School, a boarding school in what was then Northern Rhodesia, At the time of his death he had four children and 11 grandchildren. == Publications ==

Books • • Papers • • == Awards and honours ==

• 1998: Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences • 2006: Order of the British Empire • 2009: Sir Rickard Christophers Medal == References ==