Professor Ben Twinomugisha is a health and human rights activist, full Professor of Law, and former Dean at Makerere University's School of Law. He is also a visiting Professor at the Islamic University in Uganda and the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. His recent publications include Fundamentals of Health Law in Uganda (2015), Maternal Health Rights, Politics and the Law (2017), Principles of the Law of Contract in Uganda (2018), Maternal Health Rights in Uganda (2019), Using the Right to Health to Tackle Non-communicable Diseases in the Era of Neo-liberalism in Uganda (2020), A Health and Human Rights Critique of the Mental Health Act, 2019 (2020), IEL Contracts - Uganda (2020), and IEL Medical Law - Uganda (2021).
Professor Seggane Musisi is a Professor of Psychiatry and the former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. He also serves as a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital and at the Uganda Ministry of Health. In addition, Professor Musisi is the Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of Traumatic Stress and the founder of the African PsyCare Research Organization, which engages in mental health research and consultation across Uganda and Africa to inform policy and practice. His research interests focus on mental health problems arising from war and conflict in adults and children, HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children, cults, old age psychiatry, dementia and other brain degeneration in the African context, as well as traditional mental health care in Africa.
Professor Emmanuel Kasimbazi is active in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a member of the Academy on Environmental Law and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. He is also a Fellow of the Uganda Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences, and the World Academy of Sciences. Widely published in the areas of environmental law, energy law, criminal law, and forestry law, he has consulted for several international and national agencies, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Office for Project Services, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the European Union, the United Nations Development Programme, the Nile Basin Initiative, and various bilateral aid agencies.
Professor Moses Mulumba is the Vice Chancellor of the Ahaki Institute and holds a joint appointment at the Center for Health Policy and the Department of Health Administration and Health Policy at the University of North Texas. With a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Ghent and a background in law, he focuses on strengthening health systems and informing health policymaking for the right to health and social justice. He teaches Health Law and Policy and explores Global Health. In addition to founding and leading Afya na Haki and the Center for Human Rights and Development, he serves on the steering committee of Regional Network on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa （EQUINET） and is a member of the Joint Action Learning Initiative. He has also co-investigated the Goals and Governance for Global Health initiative （Go4Health）
Mark Tumwine is a Senior Health Economist with nearly 20 years of experience in public health. He has served as a Public Health Specialist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he gained extensive expertise in designing and implementing economic evaluations, particularly in public expenditure analyses, costing, and cost-effectiveness studies related to HIV/AIDS and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (RMNCH) programming in Uganda and the surrounding region.
Throughout his career, Mark has developed and rolled out resource tracking tools for HIV/AIDS, RMNCH, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. As a Health Financing expert, he has contributed to the development and costing of strategic plans, as well as health financing strategies.
Mark holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation from Uganda Management Institute, a Master of Arts degree in Economic Policy and Planning, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Economics, both from Makerere University Kampala. He has also completed certificate training with the World Bank, UNAIDS, and the CDC, focusing on health financing, the development and costing of strategic plans, the generation of National Health Accounts (WHO), and National AIDS Spending Assessments (UNAIDS).
Currently, Mark chairs the Health Financing Technical Working Group (TWG) at the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) and is an active member of several Technical Working Groups at both the Development Partner and Uganda Ministry of Health levels.
With more than twenty years of experience in policy research, analysis, and advocacy, Ms. Jane Nalunga is the Executive Director of the Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) in Uganda. She is an expert in multilateral, bilateral, regional, and national trade, as well as fiscal and investment policies and agreements, and gender and trade. Ms. Nalunga holds a Master of Arts in African History from the University of London and is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA).
Professor Nakanyike B. Musisi who is a historian of African History obtained her first degree from Makerere University in Uganda, M.A and M.Phil. from the University of Birmingham, UK and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests focus on women, gender and the state in African pre-colonial and colonial pasts as well as the history of education in Africa. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Signs: Journal of Culture and Society, Journal of African History, History in Africa, Gender and History, Oxford Encyclopedia of Research in Africa, The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies and in various edited collections. Her current book project, Duty and Desire: Biography of Queen Mother Irene Drusilla Namaganda, 1897-1957, under contract with University of Wisconsin Press, examines the life and impeachment of a Buganda’s 20th century queen mother over a sex scandal.
