Dean's Word

You're welcome to the Makerere University College of Health Sciences School of Biomedical Sciences. My name is Prof. Moses Joloba - the current Dean School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences. I was Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology (2005 – 2014).

Professor Moses Joloba has developed skills in conducting clinical microbiology and molecular biology, laboratory-based research and training as well as building laboratory capacity in Uganda and other countries.

Initially, he graduated as a physician at Makerere Medical School in 1994 and later as a clinical microbiologist at Case Western Reserve University (graduated in May 1996, MS Degree). after which he returned to Uganda and took a faculty position at Makerere university Department of Medical Microbiology. He also helped to establish a TB laboratory for the Tuberculosis Research Units (TBRU) and became its technical director and later a scientific director site (1996 – 1999). In 2000 – 2003, Professor Joloba undertook a Ph.D course at Case Western in Microbiology and Molecular Biology.

After his return Professor Joloba, he established a Molecular Biology, immunology and mycobacteriology laboratories and a Biorepository at the University. He became the Director of the National TB Reference laboratory now a supranational laboratory Prof. Joloba has won many grants and published over 140 peer reviewed papers, he is a reviewer for 6 journals and trained 18 PhDs to completion.