Prof Bruce J Kirenga

Prof Bruce J Kirenga Is a Chief Research Scientist and founding Director of the Makerere University Lung Institute (MLI). He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, at Makerere University. His main interests are in clinical and epidemiological research in the areas of obstructive lung diseases and their determinants as well as infectious lung illnesses. He has over 10 years of experience in initiating and coordinating programmatic, training and research health projects. He is actively involved in COVID-19 research and has been on the frontline since the pandemic started and is the brains behind the COVID-19 research group at MLI that has implemented several clinical trials on COVID-19, Tuberculosis, and Ebola, and currently a PI on several Mpox clinical and epidemiological projects.