Moorine Sekadde, MD, MPH

Moorine Penninah Sekadde, MD, MPH, is a Technical Advisor at the Uganda Ministry of Health – National TB and Leprosy Program.  Dr Sekadde received her medical degree in Pediatrics and Child Health from Makerere University College of Health Sciences and her Public Health degree from University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas. Her current roles include provision of technical leadership for the national and sub-national TB response while prioritizing all aspects of child and adolescent TB/HIV; the design and implementation of innovative approaches in the context of TB programming; and resource mobilization. She has additional experience in infectious diseases clinical care within resource limited settings, capacity building, research, design and implementation of public health interventions in public and private settings. She is a member on: WHO Strategic Technical Advisory Group for TB; WHO child and adolescent TB technical work group core team; numerous scientific advisory committees; and a published researcher. Her career goal is to contribute to the national, regional and global provision and scale-up of quality patient-centered care using an integrated and data-driven approach.