Christine Mulowoza

Christine is a medical doctor with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from Kampala International University, Uganda. She has four years of experience leading teams to respond to public health emergencies and design vaccine programs in Uganda. She works at the Ministry of Health, AIDS Control Program, Uganda, coordinating the first national pediatric ART cohort, the Uganda Pediatric ART (UP-ART) Cohort. The cohort has enrolled and is following up with about 1500 children and adolescents living with HIV. 

Before joining the Ministry of Health, she worked as a Program Coordinator at a private organization called Vaccine Access Initiative (VAI). While there, she coordinated its set-up and oversaw the vaccination program, which now provides vaccination and storage of vaccines. She also worked as a Frontline medical officer managing COVID-19 patients at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. 

Dr Mulowoza’s research interest is in infectious diseases, emphasizing pediatric and adolescent HIV/AIDS. Her ultimate goal is to enhance and support the research portfolio, especially at the Pediatric and Adolescent HIV unit at the Ministry of Health. She envisions herself playing an important role in devising innovative solutions through Implementation and Evaluation research to address the programmatic challenges. 

Dr Mulowoza is enrolled in a postgraduate diploma in global health research at the University of Oxford. She is a Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholar.