Fanuel Meckson Bickton

Fanuel is a Malawian physiotherapist, currently a Physiotherapy Lecturer in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi. He holds a Master of Science degree (with Distinction) in Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy from University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom. He was previously awarded an early-career research grant from the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the NIHR-Wellcome Partnership for Global Health Research International Masters Scholarship. These grants enabled him to test the feasibility and acceptability of a pulmonary rehabilitation program for patients with functionally limiting chronic respiratory symptoms at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. Through this work and his other pulmonary rehabilitation research in low- and middle-income countries, Fanuel contributes to teaching the Health Management & Clinical Exercise for Pulmonary Disease module to MSc students in Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy at UCL as a part-time lecturer. For his CARTA PhD Scholarship at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, Fanuel is investigating the rehabilitation needs of authors with multimorbidity in Malawi and developing the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for multimorbidity rehabilitation. His ambition is to become a professor in the field of exercise-based rehabilitation and promote the growth of this field in Malawi and Africa through academic teaching, research, and mentorship.