Dr. Olive Kobusingye

Board Chair

Dr. Olive Kobusingye is the Board of the Road Traffic Injury Research Network. By profession, Dr.Kobusingye is an Accident & Emergency surgeon and injury epidemiologist at Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda, where she heads the Trauma, Injury, & Disability Unit. She is also a Distinguished Fellow of the George Institute for Global Health, Australia. 

Her Previous positions include lecturing in the Department of Surgery, Makerere University, surgeon, Accident & Emergency Department, Mulago Hospital, and Regional Advisor on violence and injury prevention and control, World Health Organization, African Region. Kobusingye has published extensively on road safety, drowning, injury surveillance, trauma registries, and emergency trauma care in low- and middle-income countries.