Research Fellow
Dr. Kobusingye is an Accident & Emergency surgeon and injury epidemiologist. She is a Senior
Research Fellow at Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda, where she headed the
Trauma, Injury, & Disability Unit until she retired in December 2022. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the George Institute for
Global Health, Australia.
She is the Board Chair of the Road Traffic Injury Research Network, an international agency
working to improve road safety through research globally. Previous positions include lecturing in
the Department of Surgery, Makerere University, surgeon, Accident & Emergency Department,
Mulago Hospital, and Regional Advisor on violence and injury prevention and control, World
Health Organization, African Region. Kobusingye has published extensively on road safety,
injury surveillance, trauma registries, and emergency trauma care in low- and middle-income
countries.