Misaki Wayengera

Misaki Wayengera is a Ugandan physician, academician, and a medical researcher. He serves as a lecturer for Pathology, Immunology and Molecular Biology at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. He is the chairperson of Uganda's Scientific Advisory Committee on COVID-19 for the Ministry of Health and the National Task Force.

Background He was born on 15 October 1979 at Mbale Hospital, in Mbale District.

Education Misaki was educated at North Road Primary School in Mbale District from 1987 to 1992, he joined Nabumali High School for UCE (1993-1996), he attended King's College Budo for UACE (1997-1998). In 1999, Wayengera entered the Makerere University School of Medicine where he obtained the Bachelor of Medicine and Human Surgery graduating in 2004, He later obtained a joint PhD degree in Pathogenomics from Makerere and Yale University in 2018. Misaki has obtained several post graduate certificates such as a Certificate in Bioentreprenuership from University of Toronto, Certificate in Vaccinology from Oxford University (2014), Certificate in Research and Diagnostics Development from Emory University (2017), a post Doc in Filovirogy from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa (2019). He has special training in Immunology, Vaccinology, Clinical Microbiology, Filovirology and Genetics. as Lecturer for Genetics & Genomics Deptment of Pathology at Makerere University College of Health Sciences since 2014.

Awards In 2015, he was listed 57 out of 100 most influential Africans (Science & Technology Track), in the New African Magazine.

Committee memberships Wayengera is a member of various organisations such as Member at Association of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa-APECSA Member of International AIDS Society (IAS) Member of Alliance for Microbicide Development Member of African Society for Human Genetics (AfSHG) Member of YECI-Steering Committee, Global HIV vaccine Enterprise Member of IAS “Towards an HIV cure” group Member of H3Africa Consortium (funded by NIH, Wellcome Trust) Member of the 50 Scientists’ Advisory Committee for the African Network for New Diagnostic Innovation (ANDI) Pre-Symposium to the African Union Heads of State meeting on Ebola and other disease Technologies.