Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, MD, PhD

Biography

Dr Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Makerere University, College of Health Sciences. She completed her Bachelor of Medicine Degree in 1995, Masters of Paediatrics and Child Health in *2002* at Makerere University and her PhD from the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2020. She was a Gilead Fellow, and then Research Scholar at the Infectious Diseases Institute from 2003-2011 where she undertook a Fellowship in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and did research on HIV-infected adolescents. Dr Sabrina has participated in epidemiological research and published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles. She is involved in conducting basic research in various Paediatrics Infectious Diseases and offers clinical care to HIV-infected children and adolescents most of whom are perinatally infected. She has contributed to efforts that improve Adolescent health care and training in Uganda, East and Southern Africa Region and Globally over the past 20 years. She teaches HIV in Adolescents on the East African Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene supported by the London School of Tropical Medicine and sits on various expert panels for the Ministry of Health in Uganda, WHO, UNICEF and the UNFPA. Dr. Kitaka is a distinguished member of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences. Her goal is to see every child and adolescent achieve their fullest potential. As part of this goal, she directs the Adolescent Health training program at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences and is the Founder and President of the Society of Adolescent Health in Uganda(www.sahu.ug). She has been involved in organizing various Scientific Conferences including the National Paediatrics HIV Meeting in Uganda; the Annual Scientific Conference for the Society of Adolescent Health (www.sahu.ug); the Annual Scientific Conference for the Uganda Society of Health Scientists and the esteemed Co-Chair for the INTEREST22 meeting that was held in Kampala in May 2022. 

Sabrina, Bakeera-Kitaka 2021
Position
Makerere University College of Health Sciences / Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda