Associate Professor
School: Medicine
Department: Paediatrics and Child Health
Nicolette is a Paediatrician and Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda. Nicolette is a researcher, evidenced by 43 publications, and a practicing Paediatrician for over 18 years. She is passionate about Nutrition in children which was the focus of her PhD. She has been providing clinical care for children with Severe Acute Malnutrition for 10 years now, and involved in several studies involving this population. She is involved in teaching medical students and other different cadres of health workers in this field. She was involved in the core team involved in the revision of the national IMAM guidelines, where she contributed a lot to the inpatient therapeutic care chapter. She is a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on wasting and nutritional oedema. Her other research interests include HIV in children and Adolescent Health.
Research and Publications