Uganda Society for Health Scientists
- promoting research to improve the health of Ugandans
 
List of USHS Board members from inception
Oct 1999 to July 2001
Names: M. Margaret K. Muganwa
Qualification: MBChB, MPH, DFH, MS
Designation: Lecturer (Environmental Health Programs Coordinator).
Speciality: Teaching, Environmental Health, Food Hygiene, Gender and Health.
Expertise: Teaching, Environmental Health, Food Hygiene, Gender and Health.
 
Address:
Makerere University Institute of Public Health.
P.O .Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda
OR P. O. Box 40382 Kampala.
Phone: 256-41-541560
Fax: 256-41-531807
E-Mail: mmuganwa@iph.ac.ug, mmuganwa@hotmail.com,
 
 
Name: Prof..Joseph Konde-Lule
Qualification: MBChB, MSc, DPH
Designation: Associate Professor
Speciality: Epidemiology and Research Methods
Expertise: Epidemiology, Evaluation of Health Intervention, Disease Surveillance
Address:
Makerere University Institute of Public Health
P. O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa.
Phone: 256-41-545002
Fax: 256-41-531807
Email:jkonde@iph.ac.ug, Publications
Other Members
Dr. Moses Kamya
Dr. Harriet Mayanja Kizza
Dr. Paul Waibale
Dr. Cecily Banura
  Dr. Cissy Kityo
Dr. Prosper Tumusime
Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye
 
July 2001 to July 2003
Dr. Cecily Banura - Chairperson
Dr. Moses Kamya - Vice Chairperson
Dr. Margaret Muganwa - Secretary
Dr. Harriet Mayanja Kizza – member
Dr. Fred Nuwaha
    Hon. Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye
Dr. Cissy Kityo
Prof. Joseph Konde – Lule
Dr. Alphonse Okwera
Mr. Milton Mutto
         
July 2003 to Aug 2005
Prof. Joseph Konde – Lule - Chairperson
Dr. Margaret Muganwa - Vice chairperson
Dr. Lorna Nshuti - Secretary
Dr. Fred Nuwaha Ntoni - Treasurer
Dr. Harriet Mayanja Kizza - Member
Dr. Moses Kamya - Member
Hon. Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye - Member
Dr. Alphonse Okwera - Member
Ms. Jayne Byakika Tusiime - Member
  Name: Dr. Israel Kalyesubula
Qualification: MB. ChB; MMed; DTCH.
Designation: Consultant Paediatrician
Specialisation: Paediatric HIV/AIDS
Expertise: Paediatric HIV/AIDS
Address: Makerere University
Depart of Paediatrics
P.O. Box 7072
Kampala
 
Aug 2005 to July 2007
Ms. Jayne Byakika Tusiime - Chairperson
(Left for her PhD studies August 2006)
(Acting chairperson from Aug 2006 to July 2007)
Dr. David Meya - Secretary
Dr. Lorna Nshuti - Treasurer
(Left for further studies April 2006)
Prof. Harriet Mayanja Kizza - Member
Dr. Carol Onyango Makumbi - Member
(Became treasurer from April 2006 to July 2007)
Dr. Andrew Kambugu - Member
Dr. Kenneth Kintu - Member
Dr. Denise Njama Meya - Member.
Name: Simon Kasasa
Qualification: B.Stat., MSc.
Designation: Assistant Lecturer
Speciality: Bio Statistics
Expertise: Data Management and Analysis, Operational Research, Teaching Bio Statistics Research Methods and Computer Applications
Address:
Makerere University Institute of Public Health.
P.O .Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa.
Phone: 256-41-532207
Fax: 256-41-531807
Email: skasasa@iph.ac.ug, skasasa@hotmail.com,
     
  Names: Fred Ntoni Nuwaha
Qualification: MBChB (Makerere), MPH (Leeds) PhD (Karolinska)
Designation: Head of Department and Senior Lecturer, Makerere University
Speciality: Health Economics
Areas of interest: Control of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS/STI and Malaria.
Address:
Makerere University Institute of Public Health.
P. O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda
OR c/o P. O. Box 40285, Nakawa -Kampala, Uganda.
Phone: 256-41-532207/541097
Fax: 256-41-531807
E-Mail: fnuwaha@sph.ac.ug
  Name: Dr. Pauline Byakika – Kibwika
Qualification: MBChB, MSc CEB, MMed (Int Med)
Designation: Physician – Dept of Medicine & Sewankambo Clinical Scholar (IDI), PhD
Student at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Speciality: MMed (Int med) , Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Expertise: Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics
Address:
Makerere University, Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Medicine
P.O.BOX 7051 Kampala, Uganda
Tel: 256-77- 2626885, 256-71-4500051
Email: pbyakika@idi.co.ug, pbyakika@gmail.com
July 2007 to date
Dr. Pauline Byakika Kibwika – Chairperson
Dr. Achilles Katamba- Vice chairperson
Dr. Carol Onyango Makumbi - Treasurer
Prof. Harriet Mayanja Kizza - Member
Dr. Irene Andia - Member
Dr. Simon Luzige - Member
Dr. Fred Semitala - Member
Name: Dr. Samuel Biraro
Qualification: MBChB, MPH
Designation: Project Leader, The General Population Cohort – MRC/UVRI
Specialisation: Public Health
Expertise: Field Epidemiolgy
Address: Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute,
P.O Box 49 Entebbe
  Name: Dr. Achilles Katamba
Qualification: MBchB, DCH, MS, PhD
Speciality: Health Services Research
Expertise: Cost Effectiveness Analysis
Designation: Senior Medical Doctor
Address:
P.O.BOX 21696,Kampala
Axk95@case.edu ,akatamba@yahoo.com
  Name: Andrew D. Kambugu
Qualification: MBchB, MMed (Internal Medicine)
Speciality: Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine
Expertise: HIV Management
Designation: Head of Clinical Services IDI
Address: Room 150 Ground Floor IDI
Faculty of Medicine, Mulago Hospital Complex
P.O.BOX 22918 Kampala
Email: akambugu@idi.co.ug
 
Name:Dr. Kenneth Kintu
Qualification: MBChB, MSc Epidemiology, Postgraduate diploma in Project Planning & Management.
Designation: Study Coordinator/Investigator Makerere University John Hopkins
Research Collaboration.
Speciality: Epidemiology
Expertise: Prevention of Mother to child transmission of HIV
   
Address:
Makerere University John Hopkins Research Collaboration
P.O.BOX 23491 Kampala, Uganda
Tel: 256-414-541044
Email: kenkintu@yahoo.com, kkintu@mujhu.org