Presenters include Francis Kakooza, PhDe, Deputy Head, Global Health Security Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University; and, Agnes Kiragga, PhD, Head Data Science Program, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC).
Francis Kakooza is a PhD candidate in Molecular Epidemiology at Makerere University, with a background training in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences and International Infectious Diseases Management. He is currently serving as the Deputy Head, Global Health Security Department and a senior manager at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. He is also the Program Director for the Implementation Science Pillar for COVID-19 vaccination in Africa [with coverage of 15 Africa Union member states]. Previously, he has served in different capacities as the Technical Advisor for Antimicrobial Resistance and the Program Manager for the UK-funded Fleming Fund Country Grants at IDI.
Francis has over ten years’ experience in conceptualizing, designing and implementing public health interventions on laboratory systems, antimicrobial resistance, one-health, vaccination, surveillance, biosafety and biosecurity. He is also an honorary lecturer at Makerere University, Pharmacy Department, a technical member of the Sudan Ebola-Virus sequencing team at Ministry of Health and a WHO expert for global STI guidelines development. Francis Kakooza has 15 peer-reviewed publications in the global health security space and has presented keynote addresses at the first Uganda National AMR symposium and the Uganda Pharmaceutical Symposium 2023.
Agnes Kiragga is a Research Scientist and head of Data Science Program at the African Population Health Research Council in Nairobi, Kenya. She previously worked as the Head of Statistics and data management at the Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She has a PhD in Statistics from Makerere University, Uganda/Indiana University, USA and a Post-Doctoral certificate from a fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University, USA. She is current chair for the Representative Council of the International Biometric Society and is dedicated to mentorship and expansion of biometry and data science capacity in Africa. She has over 15 years’ experience in use and re-use of large, diverse non-conventional and conventional data including longitudinal population cohorts in Africa. She leads the INSPIRE network, a consortium of over 15 Demographic Health Surveillance Sites in Eastern Africa. She is also the lead of data and methodology work stream.
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