Ekwaro Obuku

Ekwaro Obuku, is a Ugandan physician, researcher, academic and health policy expert, who is the immediate past president of the Uganda Medical Association, a professional industry association, that champions medical doctors' interests in the county. He is also currently, a Doctor of Philosophy candidate at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, in collaboration with McMaster University.

Background and education Obuku is the son of Teo Kibirige Obuku, a nurse and the late Dr. John Brian Obuku, a physician. His father hails from present-day Oyam District, while his mother is from southwestern Uganda. He was born in February 1978 at Victoria Hospital, in the city of Kisumu in Kenya at a time when the family had fled Idi Amin's regime in Uganda. Ekwaro is the third-born in a family of seven children.

Ekwaro attended nursery and primary schools in Kenya. In 1992, he returned to Uganda and was enrolled into St. Mary's College Kisubi, graduating in 1997 with a High School Diploma (A-Level Certificate). He entered Makerere University in 1998 on scholarship from the National Council of Sports, to study human medicine and play basketball. In 2003, he graduated from Makerere with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. He quit playing professional basketball for the Falcon Guards due to the demands of studying for a medical degree.

Family Ekwaro Obuku is a married father of seven children.

Other considerations Dr. Ekwaro Obuku teaches a course in Systematic Reviews as part of the MSc Clinical Trials long-distance program, at the London School of Tropical Medicine. He also teaches a course in Evidence Synthesis in the MSc in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Makerere University, Uganda.