Wilton Sebastian Kezala

Wilton Sebastian Kezala Wakooli (born 24 May 1938) is a Ugandan professor, academic administrator, medical educationist, researcher, and nurse. He co-founded the International Institute of Health Sciences (IIHS), Uganda in 1998. He served as chairman for the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board (UNMEB). He is a co-founder and former chairman of the Uganda Private Health Training Institutions Association (UPHTIA). He is a former secretary general for the AIDS Support Organization (TASO) Uganda and also Busoga kingdom. He is the executive director of the International Institute of Health Sciences (IIHS). He served also served as a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) at Cuttington University College (CUC) in the Division of Nursing. In 1990, Kezala completed his post graduate as an associate professor in Medical and Nursing Education from Cuttington University in Liberia.

Career Kezala served as a nursing officer at both Mulago National Referral Hospital and Jinja Regional Referral Hospital from 1965 to 1968. From 1977 to 2008, he served as a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at Nairobi University, department of Nursing at Botswana University, faculty of Health Sciences at Namibia University and Institute of Public Health at Makerere University. He also served as an associate professor and principal for International Institute of Health of Health Sciences.

He served as a principal of Health Tutors' College Kampala, at the Ministry of Health in the government of Uganda from 1973 to 1977, and was a member of the governing council of Health Tutors' College – Makerere University from 2010 to 2016.

In 2016, Kezala led a committee that was going to review the annual action plans on an annual basis to ensure successful implementation of the strategic plan under the support that was offered to Uganda Private Health Training Institutions Association (UPHTIA) by the USAID/Uganda private Health Support Program for five years.

In 2021, Kezala lodged a copyright or neighbouring rights registration application for his works "Research guidelines for student nurses and wives" and "application of scientific principles in patient care" with the registrar of copyright.

He has served as the chairman of the Uganda Private Health Training Institutions Association (UPHTIA) from 2011 to date (as of 2024). He also served as the assistant governor Eastern region of Uganda, District 9200 Rotary International from 2005 to 2007 and he became the country director of District 9200 Rotary International in 2008. 2015, "Assessment of Nursing and Midwifery Students in Uganda: The UNMEB Experience", the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Conference