Dr. Alice Namale joined the Program as Director on 1^st February 2022. She is a seasoned physician with over 30 years’ experience working in various capacities as clinician, teacher, researcher, consultant, and public health expert.

Prior to joining the Program, Alice was a Project Coordinator at Makerere School of Public Health, for the Covid Multi country project. Until 2020, she held the position of Public Health Specialist, HIV Treatment Team Lead, at CDC Uganda. Previously, she worked with Uganda Ministry of Health and Makerere University Medical School as a Senior Consultant Physician and Honorary Lecturer.

Alice is a member of the Association of Physicians of Uganda (APU), the Uganda Gastroenterology Society, Deputy Chair of the UVRI Research and Ethics Committee and was one of the founder members of the Uganda National Health Consumers Organization (UNHCO), where she served on the BOD for several years and is a member of the Uganda Virus Research Institute – Research and Ethics Committee (UVRI-REC).

Dr. Alice Namale holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Makerere University, a Masters in Internal Medicine (MUK) and Masters in Public Health from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.

Email: anamale@musph.ac.ug