Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka Dr. Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, MD, PhD is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Makerere University, College of Health Sciences. She also serves as an Honorary Senior Consultant at the Stanfield’s Infectious Diseases Ward of the Mulago National Referral Hospital, and the Paediatrics Infectious Diseases Clinic at Baylor-Uganda. She co-directs the Friday Adolescent Clinic at Makerere and Mulago which was started in May 2013. She completed her Bachelor of Medicine Degree in 1995, Masters of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2002 at Makerere University. She completed her PhD from the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2020. She was a Gilead Fellow, and then a Sewankambo Research Scholar at the Infectious Diseases Institute from 2003-2011 where she undertook a Fellowship in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and did research on HIV-infected adolescents. Dr. Kitaka has participated in epidemiological research and co-published more than 65 peer-reviewed articles. She has contributed to efforts that improve Adolescent health care and training in Uganda, East and Southern Africa Region and Globally over the past 20 years. She taught HIV in Adolescents on the East African Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene supported by the London School of Tropical Medicine; was a visiting and adjunct assistant professor of Pediatrics and Global Health at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University(2007-2020) and continues to support the Global Health Training Program of Nuvance Health at the University of Vermont, USA. Sabrina is a technical advisor on various expert panels for the Ministry of Health in Uganda, WHO, UNICEF and the UNFPA.She has offered Guest Lectures at the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University;and was a Plenary Speaker at the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine Scientific Conference held in Sandiego, California in 2016. Dr. Kitaka is a distinguished Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences since October 2019. Her goal is to see every child and adolescent achieve their fullest potential. As part of this goal, she directs the Adolescent Health training program at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences and is the Founder and President of the Society of Adolescent Health in Uganda(www.sahu.ug). She has been involved in organizing various Scientific Conferences including the National Paediatrics HIV Meeting in Uganda; the Annual Scientific Conference for the Society of Adolescent Health (www.sahu.ug); the Annual Scientific Conference for the Uganda Society of Health Scientists and was the esteemed Co-Chair for the INTEREST22 meeting that was held in Kampala in May 2022.Her current work involves offering technical assistance to the WHO in scaling up Adolescent Health Care in the Afro-Region using the Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!)Guidance to Support Country Implementation, including in Uganda; Namibia; Mauritius and Sierra Leone. She was a distinguished panelist on the UNGA79 held virtually on 11th September 2024 under the theme ‘One size does not fit all in Global Health’ and her considerations included discussing this issue under:” caring for adolescents and young adults who are the future adults’. Dr. Sabrina Kitaka was the inaugural recipient of the Majid Sadigh,MD Global Health Award in September 2024 which was presented to her at the 3rd Global Health Conference held in Danbury Conneticut,USA.This award is given to outstanding female academicians who conduct work with the most vulnerable individuals and have impacted the lives of people globally. She was a trainer on the Adolescent Health Clinical Provider’s Training held in Eldoret, Kenya January 2025,supported by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Arnhold Institute of Global Health.