Dr Benon Kwesiga, MBChB, MPH, Advanced FETP, is a medical doctor and epidemiologist with over a decade of experience in field epidemiology, disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, operational research, and public health workforce development.
He is the Program Coordinator for Uganda’s Advanced Field Epidemiology Training Program at the Uganda National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health. A graduate of the programme’s inaugural cohort in 2016, he joined the training team in 2017 and has since trained and mentored every Advanced FETP cohort, comprising more than 100 fellows.
Dr Kwesiga has been a member of Uganda’s National Rapid Response Team since 2015 and has participated in more than 60 outbreak investigations and responses.
He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. His professional interests include applied epidemiology, emergency preparedness and response, disease-surveillance systems, mentorship of field epidemiologists, and translating field evidence into public health policy and practice.