Mwai Makoka is the Programme Executive for Health and Healing, World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva. His programme helps WCC members (350 churches in 110 countries) to see health issues through the lens of the Christian faith and mobilises them into positive action. The programme supports member churches and Christian health networks to contribute to the Health for All agenda. He serves on various working groups of the World Health Organisation, and on boards of Africa Christian Health Associations’ Platform, Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network and the Christian Connections for International Health.
Dr. Makoka is a medical doctor and has been in the ecumenical circles for many years. He also worked in the University of Malawi medical school, Malawi Ministry of Health and National AIDS Commission and was Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Malawi. He graduated in medicine from the University of Malawi and was a John E. Fogarty post-doctoral fellow in medical and public health microbiology and infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His latest publications are Health-Promoting Churches: Reflections on health and healing for churches on commemorative world health days (WCC 2020) and Health-Promoting Churches Vol II: A handbook to accompany churches in establishing and running sustainable health promotion ministries (WCC 2021).
