Prof. Miriam Nakalembe is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Makerere University where she is involved in the training and mentorship of both undergraduate and graduate students. Miriam is also a clinical researcher at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences. She is leading NIH funded studies focused on cervical cancer prevention both in the community and facility level with collaborators from the University of California San-Francisco, Indiana University and University of Arizona, USA. She has been involved in the drafting of the cervical cancer screening and treatment guidelines for Uganda and she is part of the cervical cancer prevention task group at the Uganda Ministry of Health. She is one of the lead consultants on the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and Global Fund pilot projects introducing HPV self-testing in ART clinics of regional referral hospitals. Further, she is one of the technical consultants on the CDC-supported National rollout of cervical cancer screening in over 640 health facilities. Miriam supports other research projects in the area of obstetrics. She is a co-Investigator on the PROMOTE studies with IDRC exploring the prevention of malaria in pregnancy. She has also been involved in clinical trials supported by WHO and Pfizer pharmaceuticals among pregnant women.

Email: mnakalembe@gmail.com.