Academic and Professional Background

Golden is a Chevening and Commonwealth Scholar who was conferred with a PhD in Health Sciences (Public Health and Bioethics) on the 20th of February 2025 at the University of Warwick with funding from the Commonwealth Scholarships. Before joining the University of Warwick, he graduated with an MSc in Advanced Social Work Studies from the University of Dundee in 2019 funded by the Chevening Scholarships. He also holds another MSc in Public Health Promotion from Leeds Beckett University which he obtained in 2014, and a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Zambia which was conferred in 2008, with funding from the Zambia Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board (HELSB).

Golden is a seasoned Social Development, Protection, Humanitarian and Global Health Professional with more than twelve (12) years experience working for International Non-Governmental Organisations in Africa at different levels. He served as Deputy National Director for SOS Children's Villages International in Sierra Leone in Freetown where he led a workforce of more than 300 members of staff to provide Health, Education, Humanitarian, Livelihood, Social Protection, and Child Protection Services and Programmes to Vulnerable, Excluded and Disadvantaged Children, Women, Families and Communities. He also served as Technical Manager-Health Programme for Zambia and Mozambique at ChildFund International based in Lusaka Zambia where he led the conceptualisation, planning, implementation and management of HIV/AIDs, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (ASRHR), Food and Nutrition, Mother and Child Health (MCH), Water and Sanitation, and Covid-19 Emergency Response Projects. He has also undertaken work related assignments in other African countries including Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Malawi and South Africa.

Research Interests

He is interested in Public Health and Bioethics, HIV Services, Social and Health Care, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Social Development, Humanitarian, and digital health

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PhD Project Title

Indigenous Bioethics in Sub-Saharan Africa Healthcare System: An empirical ethics study of how Community Health Workers in Zambia resolve ethical challenges encountered during HIV services provision.

Conferences Presentations/Publications

Golden Lwando Mwinsa, Benjamin Ferguson and Frances Griffiths (July 2024): "We don't want this disease to go viral", Ubuntu morality concerning the use of coercive and deceptive methods in the Provision of HIV services in Zambia: An empirical ethics study: Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference, Oxford.

Golden Lwando Mwinsa, Benjamin Ferguson and Frances Griffiths (June 2024): Indigenous Bioethics in Post-Colonial Africa's Healthcare System, An empirical ethics study of how community health workers in Zambia resolve ethical challenges encountered during HIV services provision. Warwick Medical School Research Symposium, University of Warwick.

Golden Lwando Mwinsa, Benjamin Ferguson and Frances Griffiths (April 2023): Artificial Intelligence, Data Capitalism, and Bioethics in Sub-Sahara Africa: "Many Worlds of AI: Intercultural Approaches to Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" International Conference: Jesus College, Cambridge University

Golden Lwando Mwinsa, Benjamin Ferguson and Frances Griffiths ( April 2024): Ethics of Coercion and deception in HIV services provision in Zambia: "European Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) Network" International Conference: University of Warwick.

Mwinsa, L., G. (2013) Dimensions of Africa's Poverty: Causes, Complexities and Solutions. Lambert Academic Publishing

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Supervisors

Professor Frances Griffiths-Professor of Medicine in Society

Professor Benjamin Ferguson-Professor of Philosophy

Contact Details

Email: goldenmwinsa@gmail.com

LinkedIn: Golden Lwando Mwinsa