Lydia Nakiyingi

Lydia Nakiyingi is a senior lecturer and a clinical researcher based at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. She is also an infectious diseases physician and attend on the infectious diseases and the tuberculosis wards of Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital. Her research area of interest is in tuberculosis and HIV. She has been involved in implementation of HIV and tuberculosis clinical research for the past 10 years, currently involved in several TB diagnostics evaluation studies. she has produced several peer-reviewed publications and involved in training, supervision and mentorship of medical students at Makerere University. She also has supervised postgraduate and PhD research dissertations in TB and HIV.
She is currently the program coordinator for the SANTHE program at the Uganda CWRU Research Collaboration and involved in supervision of the SANTHE trainees at the Uganda site.