Dr. Proscovia Naluyima Sekiziyivu
Dr. Proscovia Naluyima Sekiziyivu, PhDLaboratory Director, Makerere University Walter Reed Project
I am a basic scientist with a passion for strengthening medical laboratories and training young people for careers in healthcare. I am the Laboratory Director of Makerere University Walter Reed Project’s (MUWRP) College of American Pathologists’ certified laboratory. I am a senior investigator and integral member of MUWRP’s scientific research team, responsive to the scientific goals of the MUWRP research program, recommending changes to existing protocols or suggesting new lines of inquiry as appropriate. I am also an Honorary Lecturer of immunology at Makerere University School of Biomedical Sciences department of immunology and molecular biology and have participated in the training of both undergraduate and postgraduate students for close to 10 years.
For the last two years I have been the Ugandan laboratory lead for the Joint Mobile Emerging Diseases Intervention Clinical Capability program designed to develop capacity of a multidisciplinary team of clinical and laboratory personnel to perform clinical research and trials in viral hemorrhagic fevers. Under this program I direct the activities of a Biosafety level II plus laboratory designed to support clinical care of patients infected with high consequence pathogens like viral hemorrhagic fever, and have received training on Ebola Case Management. I am part of the Ugandan National Task Force, a department of the Ministry of Health mandated to respond to outbreaks of diseases with epidemic potential. I also have expertise in multicolor flow cytometry and have experience of over 10 years performing HIV immunology research.