Award-winning abstracts from the first Paediatric and Child Health Association of Malawi Conference

The Paediatric and Child Health Association of Malawi (PACHA) held its first conference from September 22 to 24 2017 in Lilongwe, Malawi under the theme ‘Using a multidisciplinary team approach to improve child health outcomes throughout Malawi.’ Four guiding principles of the conference research team were: (1) to link research with practice in low resource settings, (2) bring together members of multiple disciplines to engender a more collaborative care environment for interprofessional pedagogy and practice, (3) facilitate communication between stakeholders at research institutions to identify shared goals in alignment with Malawi’s national health research agenda, and (4) set the foundation for an annual conference where findings will inform practice and policy in Malawi. Out of 44 submissions, we selected four award-winning abstracts in paediatric and child health to reflect excellence in discovery or implementation research in Malawi. The four winning abstracts are highlighted below.