Dr. Fred Nuwaha Ntoni

Dr. Nuwaha is a professor of Disease Control and Prevention at Makerere University School of Public Health. He has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from Makerere University; a Masters in Public Health from Leeds University; and a PhD in Disease Control from Karolinsika Institutet. His fields of specialty and research interests include Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), HIV/STIs, TB, and Malaria; with over 100 peer reviewed publications.

He is the PI for FibroSCHoT that is evaluating the impact of repeated doses of praziquantel in Schistosomiasis hot spots in Uganda and a co-PI for SPICES-Scaling-up Packages of Interventions for Cardiovascular disease prevention in selected sites in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.  In addition, Dr. Nuwaha serves as the board chairman for Kabwohe Clinical Research Centre, a member of the infectious disease institute scientific review committee and the associate editor for BMC Public Health. 

Email: fnuwaha@musph.ac.ug

He is the founder of the Rakai Health Science Program, RHSP, which has pioneered research of HIV and how it is transmitted. Today the program includes 650 support staff and multidisciplinary investigators that have conducted high impact research with huge public health implication. Dr. Serwadda has published over 350 publication in medical journals and book chapters. He is the international Principal investigator to HIV Prevention Trial Network, HPTN and an investigator in several projects in the school, including METS, Fellowship program.  He is a member of the international editors of the Lancet HIV, a regular reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine and AIDS journals. Dr Serwadda is a member of Board of trustee on several international organizations.

He is a receipt of numerous local and international awards. Previously he worked as Head of department of disease control and environmental health and Dean of the school of public health. 

Professor Serwadda was in December 2019 appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Population Council. In the same month, was elected together with 36 others among the world’s most accomplished scientists living in or focused on the developing world by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The globally recognized HIV scientist and founding member of Rakai Health Sciences Research Program, was the first to identify “Slim disease” as AIDS in Uganda in 1982; he conducted several landmark studies that have informed the test and treat concept, circumcision for prevention, and population level impact on reducing new HIV infections.

Email: dserwada@musph.ac.ug