About me
Damalie Nakanjako is a professor of medicine and the principal of the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University (Uganda), as well as the previous dean of the School of Medicine. She has over 22 years’ experience in HIV/AIDS care on different platforms. These include community trials with simple interventions such as safe water and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis to reduce morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV, hospital-based studies on basic tools like provider-initiated HIV testing and routine TB screening to improve access to HIV diagnosis, management of TB-HIV co-infections in hospital settings, epidemiological studies to understand immune recovery in long-term HIV treatment cohorts, and laboratory-based studies in human health, infection and immunity (including the “one health” approach to zoonotic infections). Prof. Nakanjako is the ADAPT Director, which involves working with the ADAPT member institutions to respond to the emerging challenge of anti-microbial resistance among humans and animals.