University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Recent Funded Research

06/01/08-05/30/09 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Growth Initiative (RGI) Award Program, Violence in the Lives of HIV-Infected Women in Malawi: A Critical Ethnography. $63,219

Teaching

Dr. Mkandawire-Valhmu has taught Foundations of clinical practice at the undergraduate level. She has also supervised graduate students undertaking clinical projects in community health nursing both in the United States and in Malawi. In 2008, with the help of another faculty member, she took 22 students to Malawi for a period of two weeks to study community health nursing in rural and urban Central and Southern Malawi.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. & Doering, J.J. (2012). Study abroad as a tool for promoting cultural safety in nursing education. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 23(1), 82-89.

Mkandawire-Valhmu, L., Rodriguez, R., Ammar, N., & Nemoto, K. (2009). Surviving Life as a Woman: A Critical Ethnography of Violence in the Lives of Female Domestic Workers in Malawi. Health Care for Women International, 30(9), 783-801.

Mkandawire-Valhmu, L., Rice, E.I. & Bathum, M.E. (2009). Applying an egalitarian approach to vulnerable populations of women. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65(8), 1725-1734.

Nemoto, K., Rodriguez, R. & Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2008). Battered Japanese Women’s perceptions and experiences of beneficial healthcare. Japan Journal of Nursing Science, 5(1), 41-49.

Mkandawire-Valhmu, L & Stevens, PE. (2007). Applying a feminist approach to health and human rights research in Malawi: A study of violence in the lives of female domestic workers. Advances in Nursing Science, 30(4), 278-289.

Nemoto, K., Rodriguez, R., & Valhmu, LM. (2006). Exploring the health care needs of women in abusive relationships in Japan. Health Care for Women International, 27(4), 290-306.

Morrison-Beedy, D., Carey, M.P., Aronowitz, T., Mkandawire, L., & Dyne, J. (2002) An HIV-Risk Reduction Intervention in an Adolescent correctional facility: Lessons learned. Applied Nursing Research,15(2), 97-101

Morrison-Beedy, D., Carey, M.P., Aronowitz, T., Mkandawire, L., & Dyne, J. (2002). Adolescents’ input on the development of an HIV risk reduction intervention. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 13(1), 21-27.
Morrison-Beedy, D. Aronowitz, T. Dyne, J. & Mkandawire, L. (2001). Mentoring students and junior faculty in faculty research: A win-win scenario. Journal of Professional Nursing, 17, 291-296.

Morrison-Beedy, D. Aronowitz, T. Dyne, J. Mkandawire, L., Murphy, C. & Martin, J. (2001). The nurse clinician as research participant recruiter: Experiences from a longitudinal intervention study. The Journal of the New York State Nurses Association, 32(2), 9-13.

Selected Other Publications

Mkandawire, L.; Kalipeni, E. and Rodriguez, R. (Forthcoming, 2009)  The Risk of HIV among Women in Malawi: The Case of Domestic Workers and Their Experiences of Violence. In Ezekiel Kalipeni, Karen C. Flynn and Cynthia Pope (edits). Women and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Kalipeni, E.; Ghosh, J. and Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. 2007. “The Multiple Dimensions of Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Africa: A Social Science Perspective.” In Susan DiGiacomo, ed., Perspectives on Women’s Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Barcelona, Spain: Vita and Medicus Mundi Catalunya. 

2010 Wisconsin Nurses Assocation- named as one of the "100 Faces of Nursing"

2009 UWM College of Nursing New Investigator Award