Sabrina Kitaka

Sabrina Bakeera Kitaka (née Sabrina Bakeera), commonly known as Sabrina Kitaka, is a Ugandan physician, pediatrician, pediatric infectious diseases specialist and academic, who serves as a senior lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at Makerere University School of Medicine.

Background and education Kitaka was born at Nsambya, in the city of Kampala, to Teddy Bakeera, a retired nurse and the late Paul Samuel Ssemuli Bakeera, a mining engineer with Kilembe Mines.

Career Kitaka is a specialist in infectious diseases among children and adolescents, with special interest in HIV/AIDS infections among adolescents. She instructs MBChB and MMed students in pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Makerere University School of Medicine. She presents often at medical conferences inside and outside Uganda. She also gives motivational speeches to appropriate audiences.

She served as a consultant to the World Health Organization while formulating health guidelines for pneumonia among children living with HIV/AIDS. She is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences.

Family Kitaka is married to Engineer Andrew Kitaka, who was employed by the Kampala Capital City Authority and is currently a private consultant and together, they are parents of five children.

Other considerations Kitaka teaches Sunday School at All Saints Church, Mutundwe, her home place of worship. She is the Director of the Adolescent Health training program at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences and is the Founder President of the Society of Adolescent Health in Uganda. Kitaka is also an active member of the African Pediatric Society of Infectious Diseases (AFSPID).