Role: Internal Medicine Resident | O.R. Tambo MMed Scholar

Affiliation: Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

MMED Project Title: Validation of the Clinical Frailty Scale Against the Fried Frailty Phenotype Scale Among Older Persons living with HIV at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala

Bio: Emoru Daniel Reagan is a Ugandan medical doctor and O.R. TAMBO-supported Master's Research Fellow at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), currently pursuing a Master of Medicine (MMED) in Internal Medicine at Makerere University. He holds an MBChB from Makerere University College of Health Sciences (Merit, 2020) and a Chevening Scholarship-funded MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Merit, 2025)

His research and clinical training sit at the intersection of communicable and non-communicable diseases, an area he is committed to advancing throughout his career, with a growing focus on how climate change is reshaping this intersection across sub-Saharan Africa. He was awarded the RSTMH/NIHR Early Career Grant in recognition of his emerging contributions to this field.

Reagan's long-term career trajectory is to become a clinician scientist working at the interface of infectious and non-communicable diseases, with a particular emphasis on examining how climate change influences this intersection in resource-limited settings. He intends to pursue a PhD in the intersection of infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases as the next step in building this research and clinical career. Alongside his research, he is active in journal club coordination and undergraduate students clinical teaching within the Department of Internal Medicine at Makerere

LinkedIn: Emoru Daniel Reagan 
Twitter(x): @EmoruReagan