Robert Kalyesubula
African Community Center for Social Sustainability (ACCESS) UGANDA President
Robert Kalyesubula, MD, PhD is the founder and president of the African Community Center for Social Sustainability (ACCESS), an exemplary community-based organization in Uganda. Dr. Kalyesubula is a faculty and a senior lecturer, a nephrologist, and the head of the department of Physiology at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He holds a PhD in epidemiology of non-communicable diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He is the founder and president of Uganda Kidney Foundation, a researcher and a mentor, with over 75 peer reviewed publications. He is an adjunct assistant professor at Yale University and University of Vermont in the USA, and Mc Master University in Canada. He has been directing global health programs at MakCHS and ACCESS in Uganda for the last 15 years.