Patricia Turimumahoro

Dr. Turimumahoro will spend her fellowship year at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda under the mentorship of Achilles Katamba, MBChB, MSC, PHD and Luke Davis, MD, MAS. Her research will focus on the uptake of tuberculosis preventive therapy in resource limited settings.

Dr. Turimumahoro is a medical doctor at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. She is an early career researcher with interests in the economics of population health and she has four years of experience doing implementation research to optimize community-based active case finding strategies. She aspires to become an independent researcher optimizing primary care strategies of public health importance. She was born and educated in Uganda, which is a resource-limited setting, and as a teenager she was a caregiver attending to her late father, who was being managed for chronic kidney failure. These personal experiences and the opportunity to work with passionate researchers such as Dr. Davis at Yale University and Dr. Katamba at Makerere University have shaped her decisions to participate, advocate and promote research that leads to incremental gains that can shape a more sustainable and equitable healthcare system.