Angella Musiimenta, PhD
HIGH IRI Fellow | Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Angella Musiimenta is a Senior Lecturer and a Deputy Dean of Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST). She has specific training and expertise in digital health technologies, global health, public health research methods, counseling psychology, research methods in humanitarian settings, electronic learning, implementation research, qualitative and behavioral science methodology, and quantitative research.
Dr. Musiimenta draws her expertise from participating in training and mentorship opportunities from world class universities and mentors including from the University of Manchester-UK, the University of Leeds-UK, Harvard Medical School-USA, McGill University-Canada, and Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI)-USA.
She is an experienced postgraduate supervisor and has extensively published (over 50 publications) in health and digital technologies peer reviewed journals with over 1000 citations (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q4iwkHsAAAAJ&hl=en).
Dr. Musiimenta has managed a funding portfolio of over 3 Million USD from various funders including the US National Institute of Health (NIH); Germany Ministry of Education and Research; SPIDER (Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions); National Frontiers in Research Foundation (NFRF), Canada; International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada; Google US, Association of Common Wealth Universities, UK.
Additionally, Dr. Musiimenta has also taken a lead in providing community services mainly aimed at fostering gender equality including successfully leading the implementation of projects supported by Google (TFR14-00388) and the Association of Common Wealth Universities for encouraging the girl child participation in STEM subjects, and women’s participation in scientific research career respectively.