Makerere University School of Medicine Notable Alumni

Samson Kisekka – Physician, politician, diplomat. prime minister of Uganda (1986 – 1991) and vice president of Uganda (1991 – 1994).
Stephen Mallinga – Physician, politician. Former minister for disaster felief and refugees in the Ugandan cabinet (2011 – 2013).
George Kirya – Academician, microbiologist, politician, diplomat. Former vice chancellor, Makerere University. Former Ugandan high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Current chairman, Uganda’s Health Services Commission.
Ruhakana Rugunda – Physician, politician, diplomat. Current minister of health in the Ugandan cabinet (since 2013).
Gilbert Bukenya – Physician, Professor of Public Health, politician, farmer. Former vice president of Uganda (2003 – 2011).
Nelson Sewankambo – Physician, professor of medicine, medical researcher. Principal, Makerere University College of Health Sciences (since 2007).
Crispus Kiyonga – Physician and politician. Minister of defense in the Ugandan cabinet (since 2006)
Specioza Kazibwe – Surgeon, politician, women’s activist. Vice president of Uganda from 1994 until 2003.
Kizza Besigye – Physician, politician, leader of the Forum for Democratic Change political party in Uganda. Ugandan presidential candidate in 2001, 2006, and 2011.
David Serwadda – Professor of public health, dean of the Makerere University School of Public Health (since 2007)
Emmanuel Otala – Physician, politician. Former minister of state for labor in the Ugandan Cabinet (2009 – 2011)
Lulume Bayiga – Physician, politician and member of parliament. Acting secretary general of the Democratic Party in Uganda
Paul D’Arbela – Physician, academic, and medical researcher. Current professor of medicine and dean of postgraduate studies at the Uganda Martyrs University Postgraduate School of Medicine, based at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya in Nsambya, Kampala.
Charles Olweny – Oncologist, academic, and medical researcher. Former professor of medicine at Makerere University Medical School and Director of Uganda Cancer Institute, Mulago, Kampala. Current vice chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University, in Nkozi, Mpigi District.
Christine Ondoa – Pediatrician, administrator, pastor. Former minister of health in Uganda (2011 – 2013). Chairperson of the Uganda AIDS Commission (since 2014)
Jeremiah Twa-Twa – Physician and politician, elected member of parliament for Iki-Iki County, Budaka District (2011 – 2016)
Maggie Kigozi – Physician, businesswoman, sportswoman, farmer. Currently a management consultant at UNIDO. Former executive director of the Uganda Investment Authority.
Fred Wabwire-Mangen – Physician, public health specialist, and medical researcher. Current professor of epidemiology and head of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Makerere University School of Public Health.
Harriet Mayanja-Kizza – Professor of internal medicine, clinical immunologist, and academic administrator. Current dean of the School of Medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

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