Dr. Bruce J. Kirenga, MBChB, MMed, MCR, PhD, FRCP (London) is a Chief Research Scientist and founding Director of the Makerere University Lung Institute (MLI). He is also an Associate Professor (Pulmonary Medicine) in the Department of Medicine, Makerere University. Bruce formally trained in Internal Medicine at Makerere University and completed specialty registrar training in Pulmonary Medicine at Mulago National Referral Hospital, he then proceeded to complete an additional year of clinical and research training in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale University, USA. Bruce completed a 2-year clinical research fellowship of the University of Amsterdam offered at the University of Rwanda, School of Public Health in Rwanda. He attained a PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Bruce was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2021. He has been Teaching Pulmonary, General Internal Medicine and Ethics since 2009 when he joined the Department of Medicine’s Pulmonology Unit. His main interests are in clinical and epidemiological research in the areas of obstructive lung diseases and their determinants as well as tuberculosis. Recently he established a lung cancer research program and is actively involved COVID-19 research. He has over 10 years’ experience of initiating and coordinating programmatic, training and research health projects.
