Diana Cammack

Research Associate, Politics and Governance

Diana Cammack is an ODI Research Associate and a specialist in southern African politics. She has worked in the region for thirty years and has lived there for more than fifteen. She focuses on Malawian politics but has also written on aid, governance, human rights, and conflict in Africa generally. In recent years she has been involved in a number of political economy studies, with a focus on neopatrimonial and fragile states. She leads the APPP Local Governance and Leadership research stream and APPP’s Malawi research team, which is studying governance and the delivery of public goods in peri-urban areas.

Outputs

Downloads

Outputs

Malawi’s medical emergency

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 31 January 2013

In the past couple of weeks the shortages of medicines in Malawi’s public health facilities has caused a public outcry. Several facts have emerged that draw attention to governance of the medicine sector, and to some of the reasons why shortages, which became worse during Bingu wa Mutharika’s term of office, continue in spite of attempts by government and donors to fix the problem.

Read and comment

The supply and distribution of essential medicines in Malawi: summary findings

Publication - Research reports and studies - 8 January 2013

Leni Wild and Diana Cammack

This paper summarises the findings of a brief political economy analysis of the procurement, supply and distribution of essential medicines in Malawi.

Download