Charles Ssemugabo is a Research Associate in the Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health .He holds degrees of Bachelor of Environmental Health Sciences (BEHS) from Makerere University, Masters of Public Health – Health Promotion (MPH-HP) from Uganda Martyrs University, a post graduate diploma in pesticide risk Management from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and is a PhD student at Makerere University.
His research interests are Environmental epidemiology, exposure and effects assessment in environmental epidemiology, planetary health and climate change, global environmental change, health systems and how they are affected by global environmental changes. His key publications include childhood injuries; epilepsy; water sanitation and hygiene; Community health systems, Pesticide poisoning; Gender and Ethics in Health systems, mHealth among others.