About The Senior Fellow

Bio sketch: Professor Peter Olupot-Olupot

Professor Peter Olupot-Olupot is a qualified Medical Doctor, holder of an MB.ChB, Master of Public Health (MPH) and PhD. He is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (FUNAS) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP). In addition, he is a Research Associate with Liverpool University in the UK, and an EDCTP Senior Research Fellow. He is a Visiting Professor at The Open University, Walton Hall, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK and a Clinical Adjunct Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. His work experience includes 25 years of clinical work with nested clinical academic career spaning16 years. He is a Professor of Clinical and Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Busitema University. He was Head of Department of Public Health and Associate Dean at this University from 2013 - 2018. He has supervised over 30 Pre-masters interns, 22 completed masters and 6 PhDs. He is also the founding Executive Director of a Wellcome Trust supported Mbale Clinical Research Institute in Eastern Uganda. Through this institute, he advances multi-and-interdisciplinary epidemiological and applied research in infectious diseases and critical care medicine. Integrated in his research are community engagement and networking activities that have made outputs of his research relevant through Public–Patient Involvement.