Dr. Simon P.S. Kibira is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda, and a leading social and population scientist with over 19 years of research, teaching, and project management experience. He holds a PhD in International Health from the University of Bergen, Norway, an MSc in Population and Reproductive Health (with distinction), and a BA in Social Sciences (First Class) from Makerere University, Uganda.
His expertise spans sexual and reproductive health, qualitative research methodology, surveys, behavioural change communication, health promotion, social determinants of health, and population studies. He teaches and mentors across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, and has supervised numerous early-career researchers. He has served as Principal or Co-Investigator on a wide range of studies, including national surveys on family planning, primary health care performance, HIV, schistosomiasis prevalence, vaccination coverage, demographic and health surveys, and sexual and reproductive health issues such as fertility, infertility, male circumcision, and sexual behaviour. His work has produced high-impact peer-reviewed publications and research reports that inform policy and practice in population health.
Dr. Kibira is also a DHS Program Fellowship recipient, an internationally certified trainer in Atlas.ti qualitative data analysis software and is also a certified Project Management for Development Professional (PMD Pro). He has extensive experience working in multi-country, multi-stakeholder research collaborations. He currently serves as a member and secretary to the Makerere University School of Public Health Research and Ethics Committee (SPHREC), as well as Chairperson of the School’s ICT and Public Relations Committee.
Beyond academia, Dr. Kibira is recognised for his commitment to community service, earning an award in his village in Kampala for community development efforts. He remains committed to advancing evidence-based public health, nurturing future scholars, and bridging research with real-world impact.
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