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Prof. Mselle is a Full Professor of Maternal Health and registered nurse-midwife practitioner bridging clinical excellence, academic leadership, and health systems. Rooted in nursing/midwifery education, medical sociology, and health promotion, her work informs teaching and research on maternal well-being. She teaches across nursing/midwifery curricula and mentors undergraduate/postgraduate students. She advises the Ministry of Health on training regulations and service standards. Her administrative leadership includes Head of Clinical Nursing, Deputy Director of Nursing/Midwifery Services at the University Hospital, and various committees. On the global stage, she served three years on the Global Technical Nursing Advisory Group. Currently, she chairs the Nursing and Midwifery Regulatory Body and is a Board Member of Benjamin Mkapa Hospital, championing professional standards and clinical governance.
Professor Mselle’s research portfolio is anchored in advancing maternal and reproductive health, women’s well-being, clinical nursing practice, nursing education, and health promotion. As a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on multiple nationally and internationally funded projects, she has generated a substantial body of evidence-based scholarship. Her findings have been widely disseminated through extensive publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals at both the national and international levels, where her work continues to inform clinical practice, educational curricula, and health policy.
Professor Mselle served as a PI or co-PI in various National and International funded research projects including;
1. Tanzania Nursing Initiatives (TNI) (2006-2013)
2. Access and Quality of Birth care, the problem of obstetric fistula and its implications (2008-2012)
3. Task Sharing for Caesarean Section Deliveries in Tanzania (2015-2017)
4. Postpartum Care (2015-2017)
5. Humanizing Birth Care (2014-2016)
6. Transforming Health Professions Education in Tanzania (THET) (2018-2023)
7. Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa-ALERT (2020-2025).
8. Essential Coaching for Every Mother (2018-2025)
1. Rashidi Heri, Mats Malqvist and Lilian Teddy Mselle. The effect of Group Antenatal Care Model on Women’s Satisfaction, Perceived Quality of Care, Nutritional Knowledge, and Dietary Diversity in Coastal Tanzania: A Quasi-Experimental Study in the Coastal Region of Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Health Research. Volume 26: Issue 6, October 2025. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/thrb.v26i6.24
2. Nathanael Sirili, Pius Temba, Furahini Yoram, Emilia Kitambala, Ali Khamis Hamad, Deodatus Sabas, Doreen Anna Sophia Mloka, Mainen Julius Moshi, Lilian Teddy Mselle. Is Harmonization of Curriculum Enough to Ensure Clinical Competencies of Graduates? Experience of Faculty and Students from two Health Training Institutions in Tanzania: A Qualitative study submitted to BMJ Open (25 Nov, 2025); 15:e106136. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106136
3. Theresia J., Kibusi Stephen M., Mselle Lilian Teddy, Sirili Nathanael: Pregnant women’s knowledge of obstetric violence and related factors: baseline evidence from an implementation study in the central zone, Tanzania. Frontiers in Global Women's Health. Volume 6 - 2025, 2026. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/global-womens-health/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2025.1685292
4. Irene Kida Minja, Nathanael Sirili, Ali Khamis Hamad, Edith Tarimo, Doreen Mloka, Sarah Macfarlane, Patricia O’Sulivan, Lilian Teddy Mselle. Readiness of Medical Universities in Tanzania to implement Competency-Based Curricula using E-Learning in teaching and assessment: An exploratory qualitative case study. BMC Medical Education (Dec, 2025) 2; 26 (1):21. doi: 10.1186/s12909-025-08360-8
5. Nyagwaswa Athanas Michael, Lilian Teddy Mselle, Costansia Anselim Bureta, Edith Mroso Tarimo, Yingjuan Cao. Experiences of healthcare providers, Survivors and Caregivers with Hospital to Home Stroke Transitional Care in Tanzania: a qualitative study. BMJ Open (Jan, 2026); 16:e098301. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2024-098301
6. Mwajuma Bakari Mdoe, Stephen Mathew Kibusi, Lilian Teddy Mselle. Prototyping to practice: Validation of the Home Care Guide for Post-Caesarean Mothers in Tanzania. EAHRJ 2025, Volume 9(2). https://doi.org/10.24248/eahrj.v9i2.842
7. Nyawawa Wawa, Menti Ndile, Dickson Mkoka, Lilian T. Mselle. Creating a Lifesaving Lens: Developing and Validating a Tool to Test Nurses’ Knowledge of Identifying Early Warning Signs of Critical Illness in adults. Nursing in Critical Care 31, no. 3 (2026): e70439. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70439
8. Theresia J., Mselle Lilian Teddy, Kibusi Stephen M., Sirili Nathanael: Developing and Testing the Effectiveness of the Contextualized mHealth Integrated System for Tracking and Reporting Obstetric Violence Incidences in Tanzania. BMC Digital Health. (May, 2026) 4:31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-026-00266-9
9. Mwajuma Bakari Mdoe, Stephen Mathew Kibusi, Lilian Teddy Mselle. The effectiveness of the post-caesarean section home care guide in increasing the knowledge of nurse midwives in central Tanzania. Front. Global. Women’s Health 7:1697841 (May, 2026). doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2026.1697841
10. Masoi, T.J., Kibusi, S.M., Mselle, L.T., Siphael Betuel, Abraham Macha, Nathanael Sirili. Developing a contextualized mHealth integrated system for tracking and reporting obstetric violence incidences in Tanzania. BMC Digit Health 4, 31 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-026-00266-9
