Vinand Nantulya, MD, PhD, FRCPath
Speaker
A career researcher, with more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is Chancellor, Busitema University, one of Uganda’s public universities, and Chair of the One Dollar for HIV Initiative Uganda, a private sector- driven endowment fund to finance Uganda’s HIV and AIDS Response.
He served at the Global Fund Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland as Senior Health Advisor, and represented the Fund on the Governing Boards of the Roll Back Malaria, and Stop TB Partnerships. Prior to that, he was Senior Research Scientist in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health. Later, he served on the Strategy Committee of the Global Fund Board, and on its Technical Evaluation Reference Group. Also served on the Board of Trustees, Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) and on various committees of WHO/TDR; and as Chair, The global Task Force for Retooling TB Control.
Experience
- consultant physician for haematology and blood transfusion
- visiting clinical research fellow,Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
- PI, sickle cell disease study for the Muhimbili Wellcome Programme.
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