Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Prof Celestino Obua (Participant)

Prof Celestino Obua (MD, MSc, PhD) is a Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Fellow of the Uganda Academy of Sciences (FUNAS) and the current Vice Chancellor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST). He lectured Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of health Sciences, Makerere University for over 12 years before serving as the Deputy Principal, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University for 4 years, after which he was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of MUST to date. Prof Obua has a strong passion for research and capacity building at the individual as well as institutional levels yielding over 100 publications. He is the Principal Investigator/Program Director on several previous and current extramural research grants/projects at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. He is currently the Hub Director/Contact PI for the NIH funded Mbarara University Data Sciences Research Hub (MUDSReH) Grant U54TW012043, part of the Data Science - Initiative Africa consortium. He is also the PI of the following NIH grants: Building Capacity for Implementation Science Research in Non-Communicable Diseases (BImS-NCDs) Grant No. D43TW011964