Sabrina Kitaka


Sabrina Bakeera Kitaka, but commonly known as Sabrina Kitaka, is a Ugandan physician, pediatrician, pediatric infectious diseases specialist and academic, who serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at Makerere University School of Medicine.

Background and education

Kitaka was born in the town of Kilembe to Teddy Bakeera, a retired nurse and the late Paul Samuel Ssemuli Bakeera, a mining engineer with Kilembe Mines.
She attended Namuhunga Primary School in Kelembe. She then transferred to Mount Saint Mary's College Namagunga, in Mukono District, where she completed her O-Level and A-Level education.
She was admitted to Makerere University in 1990, graduating in 1995 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. She interned at Saint Francis Hospital Nsambya. In 2002 she received a Master of Medicine degree in Pediatrics and Child Health, also from Makerere. She followed that with a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Infectious Diseases Institute at Mulago, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city.
As of March 2018, she was pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Pediatric HIV/AIDS, at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

Career

Kitaka is a specialist in infectious diseases among children and adolescents, with special interest in HIV/AIDS infections among adolescents. She instructs MBChB and MMed students in pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Makerere University School of Medicine.
Kitaka has published widely in peer journals and has over 30 published professional articles to her name. She presents often at medical conferences inside and outside Uganda. She also gives motivational speeches to appropriate audiences.
She served as a consultant to the World Health Organization while formulating health guidelines for pneumonia among children living with HIV/AIDS.

Family

Kitaka is married to Engineer Andrew Kitaka, who is employed by the Kampala Capital City Authority and together, they are parents of five children.

Other considerations

Kitaka teaches Sunday School at All Saints Church, Mutundwe, her home place of worship. She is the Director of the Adolescent Health training program at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences and is the Founder President of the Society of Adolescent Health in Uganda. Kitaka is also an active member of the African Pediatric Society of Infectious Diseases.