Dr Ronald Galiwango

Deputy Director of the ACE

Ronald Galiwango is a bioinformatics/data scientist and Deputy Director at the African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data Intensive Sciences (ACE-Uganda) within Makerere University's Infectious Diseases Institute in Kampala. After earning First-Class Honors in Mathematics and Statistics from Makerere University in 2013, he received a Commonwealth Fellowship for an MPhil in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2014. In 2016, he pursued a PhD in Computational Epidemiology (Epidemiology, Bioinformatics) at the University of Georgia, USA, funded by a Fogarty-NIH Fellowship, and enhanced his data science skills through DataCamp. His research focuses on data science, computational biology, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling, particularly in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). He has a strong commitment to training and mentorship, teaching courses on the MSc/PhD Bioinformatics program at Makerere University, supervising graduate students, and participating in various training programs.