Prof Musoke has children at heart, loves training the next generation of clinicians, doctors and
researchers. Her mission is to completely eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV in Uganda.
No child should be born with HIV because we have the tools, writes Beatrice Nakibuuka.
prof Philippa Musoke is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist based at
Makerere University Johns Hopkins
University (MU-JHU). The research collaboration focuses on maternal and
child health. She is also the chair of the
Ministry of Health, PMTCT and Paediatric
ART technical committees.
MU-JHU (with 80 percent female staff) is
a female-based research organization that
was started by Prof Francis Miiro (deceased)
and Prof Christopher Ndugwa (deceased)
who were obstetrician and paediatrician respectively with colleagues from the United
States.
