Lucy Mkutumula works for the Ministry of Health in Malawi as Director of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a 2019 GNLI alumni and facilitator as well as a fellow of the Havard Global Public Health for Nurse Leaders program (2023). She was nominated one of the global winners of the 2022 International Nurses Day and received the Nursing Now Challenge Award for Collaboration and Partnership by the Burdett Trust for Nursing of UK.