Olive Kobusingye

Makerere Medical School

Olive Kobusingyeis an accident and emergency surgeon and injury epidemiologist at the Injury Control Center, Makerere Medical School in Kampala, Uganda. She has experience in the design and implementation of injury surveillance systems in low income settings.

Her special interest is in designing interventions for the prevention of traffic injuries. She has clinical experience in acute and emergency trauma care and is concerned with the development of appropriate training for clinical care of the injured in under-resourced settings. Dr. Kobusingye established the first hospital trauma registries in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is also Chair of the International Network for Clinical Epidemiology (INCLEN) Africa Injury Research Cluster, consisting of researchers from four African countries.