• Phone.
  • (256) 772 653 165
  • Email
  • info@sicra.org
  • Location
  • Lira City, Plot 21-40 Ngetta Road.
Sicra

Sicra Team

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Executive Director

Francis Kiweewa

MD, MPH

Guarantors

Francis Kiweewa

Ann Nakirijja

John Bosco Mudde

Sheila Penninah Achabo

Proscovia Naluyima

Sicra Consultants/Investigators

Dr Francis Kiweewa

MBChB, MMED, MPH
Research focus: Vaccine Research, HIV Therapeutics Research, Infectious Diseases, CVID-19 and NCDs

Dr Stephen Obbo

MBChB, MMED, MPH, FRCP
Research focus: Diabetes Mellitus Research

Dr Lydia Nakiyinji

MBChB, MMED, PHD
Research focus: TB Diagnistics and Respiratory Disease Research

Dr. Benard Omech

MBChB, MMED, MPH
Research focus: Diabetes Mellitus and other non-communicable disease Research

Tereza Piloya

MBChB, MMED, PhD
Research focus: Pediatric Endocrinologist, including Diabetes in children

Dr Ivan Kimuli

MBChB, MMED
Research focus: Respiratory Diseases Research, COVID-19

Abigail Soo Link

BSN, MPH, PhD
Research focus: Meningitis, HIV

Dr. Joseph Lutaakome

MBChB, MPH
Research focus:HIV Therapeutics and Cervical Cancer Research

Dr. Pamela Ddongo

MBChB, MMED
Research focus: HIV/TB Programming and Implementation Research

Dr Willian Oyang

MBChB, MMED
Research focus: Pediatrician, Sickle Cell Research, Heamophilia, Malaria

Senior Management Team

Nicholus Sebudde

Research Coordinator

Mary Grace Nalubega

QA-QC Coordinator

Immaculate Nakibuule

Administrative Assistant

Lydia Nakiyinji

Director of Research and Programs

Departmental Heads

Nicholus Sebudde

Research Coordinator and Clinical Head

Mary Grace Nalubega

Quality Management Coordinator and Head Nursing

Magombe Geoffrey

Pharmacy Team Lead

Harriet Tino

Assistant Pharmacy Team Lead

Raymondo Oola

Laboratory Team Lead

Jenifer Alaba

Community Engagement Team Lead

Community Advisory Board

The site has had a community advisory board (CAB) since 2021. The composition of the CAB is dynamic, based on the nature and needs of the research but has included former research participants, people living with HIV, a religious representative, a youth representative, a health care provider, civil society representatives, HIV prevention advocates, popular/performing artist, and a journalist. The CAB meets periodically and helps identify culturally or socially sensitive issues that may impact participant recruitment and retention for any given study. As such, the CAB is expected to review the site’s recruitment and retention strategies and advises the study team accordingly.