Harriet Mayanja-Kizza


Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, MBChB, MMed, MSc, FACP, is a Ugandan physician, researcher, and academic administrator. She is the former Dean of Makerere University School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in East Africa, established in 1924.

Background and education

She was born in the Central Region of Uganda in the 1950s. She holds the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, obtained from Makerere University in 1978. She also holds the degree of Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine, obtained in 1983, also from Makerere. She studied immunology and pathology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, graduating with the degree of Master of Science in those fields in 1999. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Career

Mayanja-Kizza has worked as a lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine at Makerere University Medical School. She has also served as the head of the Department of Internal Medicine, both at the medical school and at Mulago National Referral Hospital, the university's teaching hospital. In November 2010, she was appointed dean of the Makerere Medical School, at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. She has presented widely at national, regional, and International conferences and has published extensively in peer journals.

Other considerations

Her area of specialization is immunology, focusing on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Her research studies, are in the areas of immunopathogenesis, and immune-modulation treatments among patients with HIV and Tuberculosis. Professor Harriet Mayanja-Kizza is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences.