Prof. Josephine Nabukenya

Prof. Josephine Nabukenya is a Health Informatician and Information Systems Scientist at the College of Computing and Information Sciences with 20+ years of substantial research experience and expertise in health informatics, digital health, information systems, and health systems research. She leads the planning, designing, development, implementation, evaluation and ethical considerations of digital health interventions; data and interoperability standards; digital data integration, sharing and governance; and applies Artificial Intelligence for data analytics and modeling, to solve fundamental health challenges in Uganda’s Health System, and the Sub-Saharan African Region with related health systems settings. She proficiently leads research teams including founding the Health Informatics Research and Innovation Group at Makerere University. She has led two feasibility studies at national level, that did not only underpin the need to develop sustainable integrated digital health data capture systems to reinforce Uganda’s health system; but also strengthened partnerships with MoH policy-makers and the health system community in Uganda. The feasibility studies contributed to standardising and improving digital health interventions and informing policy in Uganda.

Josephine is the Project Lead and is responsible for the overall project management and coordination, the NIAMR intervention development, implementation and evaluation, and provides links between MoH and related health stakeholders and CEIs around AMR digital data integration and management, and lead the mentoring, training, and skilling of the various health stakeholders of the NIAMR intervention.