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 attends 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 the implementation of HIV and tuberculosis clinical research for the past 10 years and is currently involved in several TB diagnostics evaluation studies. She has produced several peer-reviewed publications and is 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 programme coordinator for the SANTHE programme at the Uganda CWRU Research Collaboration and involved in the supervision of the SANTHE trainees at the Uganda site.