Dr. Mukasa BVM, MSc, PhD, is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine. Dr. Mukasa received his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Field Epidemiology) from Makerere University, and a Ph.D. in Public Health (Epidemiology and Genetics) from Seoul National University, and a Masters in Genomic Medicine from Imperial College London. He was a researcher at the International Vaccine Institute in the Department of Biostatistics. Dr. Mukasa has conducted research involving undertaking large-scale analyses based on data from nationwide population-based prospective cohorts and has worked on the derivation of prediction equations to estimate future risk of complex diseases. Dr. Mukasa has also collaborated on infectious disease research involving conducting interventional and observational studies, such as vaccine effectiveness studies, disease surveillance, cost of illness and cost-effectiveness analysis studies, and community household surveys in low- and middle-income countries, such as research programs in Madagascar, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia.