Amos Msekandiana
Amos Msekandiana (born 8 May 1983) is a Malawian doctor and actor. He is a paediatrician and paediatric endocrinologist, and he serves as Hospital Director of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe. He is also the medical director at Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Malawi (Baylor Malawi).
Education and training: He earned his MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) from the College of Medicine, University of Malawi. He then completed a Master of Medicine in Paediatrics and a Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Pediatric Endocrinology Training Center for Africa (PECTA).
Work and research: Msekandiana works in child health and endocrinology, and contributes to national health plans. He is involved in Malawi’s Non-Communicable Diseases guidelines for children and led a study on Type 1 diabetes in children at Kamuzu Central Hospital, focusing on blood sugar control and complications.
Public health and training: In 2025, he attended a workshop on research methodology and grant writing at KCH, organized by the Public Health Institute of Malawi with KUHeS.
Acting: Outside medicine, he is an actor who uses the screen name Jaliwa. He leads in the 2025 film Welcome to Maula Prison, which deals with injustice. The film premiered in Malawi in May 2025 and was shown in South Africa, increasing his public profile. He is known as Malawi’s first paediatric endocrinologist and as the lead actor in Welcome to Maula Prison.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 02:53 (CET).