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Assoc. Professor Bruce Kirenga is the Principal, Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS). He is a pulmonologist, researcher, and founder of the Makerere University Lung Institute and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Makerere University. He is a respected respiratory physician and researcher with a strong academic background and extensive research experience. His work has contributed significantly to the understanding of airway diseases and TB control in Uganda and beyond.
Dr. Kirenga completed his internal medicine training at Makerere University, followed by specialty registrar training in Pulmonary Medicine at Mulago Hospital. He furthered his education with an additional year of clinical and research training in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale University, USA. Additionally, Dr. Kirenga earned a PhD in Medicines from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands.
Dr. Kirenga’s research work focuses on airway diseases and their determinants, as well as tuberculosis (TB) control. He has been involved in several studies, including one that highlighted the significance of organ damage in asymptomatic COVID-19 patients and another that explored the prevalence of allergies in Kampala residents.
Dr. Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala holds a PhD (Stavanger/Makerere), M.Phil. Theology (Bergen), Master of Arts in Peace and Reconciliation Studies (Coventry), PGDE/ME in Educational Technologies (University of Cape Town) and BA (Makerere); is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Peace Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Makerere University, She is well equipped with conflict resolution and management, relationship building and management, networking and interpersonal skills relevant for interacting with different partners including government institutions, other development partners, NGOs and the private sector in multi-cultural settings.
Helen has extensively trained UNMISS staff in Conflict Transformation as well Social Cohesion and the Uganda Police in Conflict Transformation and Peace building. Helen also served as
a member of the Makerere University Council and Chair of the Student Affairs Committee of Council.
I am a member of Council, we pass University policies and regulations
Nanyondo Sumaiyah Sebuta is an Advocate of the High Court of Uganda and all subordinate courts .She is also a Commissioner for Oaths.
Sumaiyah was entered on the Roll of Advocates in June 2012 and has since been in active practice.
Dr. Cyprian Misinde joined the Directorate in October 2022. His main role is to lead, initiate, design, direct, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the processes of services provided at the university, which include the admission of students, teaching and learning, assessments, recruitment of staff, financial processes, graduation, procurement, experiential learning, research, policy developments, collaborations, partnership and linkage to other institutions are done in the most efficient, effective, inclusive, and accountable way as per the strategic plan and the established standards in the University, and as per the nationally and internationally agreed norms. And to develop systems for quality assurance in the University.
Cyprian holds a PhD in Childhood Studies from Queen’s University Belfast. He is a Social and Population Scientist. His research interest has focussed on Child well-being and poverty measurements, improving learning in schools in Uganda, reproductive health, vulnerable populations such as children of incarcerated parents lift at home, challenges and experiences of informal caregivers who care for people suffering from noncommunicable diseases in Uganda, and drug use among boda-boda cyclists in Uganda. Cyprian is a DHS Fellow in 2015 and a Commonwealth Fellow in 2011.
Previously, he was the Head of the Department of Population Studies at, the School of Statistics and Planning College of Business and Management Sciences. He also worked as a Senior Lecturer in the above Department. He has also done consulting work in the area of Quality Assurance in Local Government assessments in Uganda and other consultancies with highly reputable organisations, which include: UNDP, The World Bank, UNFPA, UBOS, office of the Prime Minister of Uganda, among others.
Cyprian is a member of the Board of Directors of the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU); and Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP). He is also a member of the Makerere University Intellectual Property Committee and a member of the Central Management and Top Management of Makerere University. Cyprian is also the President of the James Ochola Memorial Secondary School Old Students Association.
Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala is an Associate Professor attached to the Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC), and a former Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) at the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada (2007-2008). He teaches Human Rights in the domestic perspective, Consumer Law and Protection, Introducing Law and Legal methods, Equity and Trusts and Intellectual Property Law to undergraduate students and International Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law and Computers and the Law to graduate students at Makerere University School of Law. He is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS).
He has extensive knowledge on International and Comparative Indigenous people’s law, Rights of ethnic minorities, Oil and Gas Law, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and has also done work on the Rights of Indigenous Communities in East Africa. He is an Advocate of the High court of Uganda. Dr. Kakungulu-Mayambala’s doctoral thesis at The University of Arizona was on Indigenous People, Human Rights, and the African Problem: The Case of the Twa, Ogiek and Maasai. He has consulted for many international and national agencies including IDRC, CIDA, DFID, SIDA, DANIDA, NORAD, ASF, EASSI, KCK and ACODE.
His research interests include Electronic Communications Law and Internet Governance, Intellectual Property Law, Electronic Commerce Law, Competition Law and Policy, National Security and Counter-Terrorism Law and International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Law.