Dr. Bupe Mwamba is a Maternal and Child Health Specialist, academic, researcher, and clinical practitioner with extensive experience across Australia, South Africa, and Zambia. She has over twenty years of professional experience spanning from management, administration, research, neonatal care, and maternity services, and is widely recognised for her commitment to improving outcomes for women and newborns.
Dr. Mwamba is a passionate advocate for mothers and babies and is the Co‑Founder of Newborn Support Zambia, an organisation dedicated to improving the quality of neonatal care in Zambia. Her work has been recognised through several prestigious awards, including the American College of Nurse‑Midwives Thacher Community Grant, the Bonnie Pedersen Award, the International Confederation of Midwives Research Award, and the national research foundation in South Africa.
Her research focuses on delayed cord clamping as an evidence‑based intervention to reduce the lifetime risk of anaemia, particularly in low‑ and middle‑income countries. She is also engaged in health‑care workforce research and contributes to the Workload Indicators for Staffing Needs initiative, advocating for evidence‑based staffing models and safe workforce planning.
Dr. Mwamba currently serves as a Senior Lecturer, National Coordinator, student advisor, and tutor in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery and Health Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney. She holds a PhD in Midwifery, a Master of Philosophy in Maternal and Child Health, and multiple nursing and midwifery qualifications. Her academic interests include program evaluation, quality improvement, leadership, workforce development, maternal and newborn epidemiology, empathy, and mixed‑methods research supervision.
