Andrew Kambugu

Andrew Ddungu Kambugu is a Ugandan physician who serves as The Sande-McKinnell Executive Director at Uganda Infectious Disease Institute and a Honorary Senior lecturer at Makerere University College of Sciences. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. In July 2020, he was appointed to the United Nations 2021 Food System Scientific Group.

Kambugu did his medical internship at Mulago National hospital in Kampala (1997–98) and has served as a Medical Officer of Uganda Telecom (1998-1999), as a Medical Resident in the Department of Medicine at Makerere University Medical School (October 1998-November 2002), as a physician attending Ward 4B at Mulago Hospital (December 2002 - August 2005) as Head of Preventative Care and Treatment Programme (2005-2012), as Head of Research Programme (May 2012- update) and in May 2013 he was appointed as The Sande-McKinnell Executive Director at Infectious Disease Institute. Kambugu is a Honorary Senior lecturer in the Department of Medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. He has presented at Medical conferences inside and outside Uganda such as at Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, The International AIDS conference, The South Africa HIV Clinicians Society (2014, 2016), The International Workshop on HIV in Resource Limited Settings(2012, 2014, 2015 $2016). Kambugu serves as a consultant to the World Health Organization on Antiretroviral Therapy since 2010.

Kambugu was born on 22 February 1973 in Kampala, Uganda. He attended Buganda Road Primary School, King's College Budo for both O & A level and in 1992 he was enrolled at Makerere University, Uganda for a Bachelor of Medicine and surgery and a Masters degree in Medicine specialising in Internal Medicine graduating in 1997 and 2002 respectively. He is a trained fellow in infectious diseases from University of Manitoba.