Pauline Byakika
Ugandan specialist physician
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Background and education
She was born in the Eastern Region of Uganda circa 1973. She attend St Theresa’s Namagunga Primary Boarding School from Primary one to seven and crosses to Mt St Mary’s College Namagunga, where she attended from S1 to S6 and she was admitted to the Makerere University, where she studied human medicine. Pauline excelled at all levels as one of the best ten students in the country. She graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree in 1999. She followed that with a Master of Medicine (MMed) degree in Internal Medicine, also from Makerere University. Her third degree was a Master of Science (MSc) in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, obtained from Makerere University. She also holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Clinical Pharmacology obtained from the Trinity College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland. Her PhD thesis analyses the drug-to-drug interactions between antimalarials and Anti-retroviral drugs.
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Career
Byakika started out as a medical officer at Mulago National Referral Hospital and over time rose in status through senior house officer (SHO), registrar and finally consultant in the department of Medicine at the hospital.
She concurrently taught at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, which uses Mulago Hospital as its teaching hospital. She rose through the ranks, over the years, from research associate, assistant lecturer, lecturer, senior lecturer, to the rank of associate professor, and full Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology as of August 2018. She has also worked at the university's Infectious Diseases Institute.
In 2017, Pauline Byakika, MBChB, MMed (Medicine), MSc, PhD, was elected to serve as the vice president of the Uganda Medical Association, for the next two years. In addition to her duties, as a member of the nine-person executive committee, she was a member of the 55-person national governing council of the association.
On 5 August 2024, she was named as the third vice chancellor of Mbarara University of Science and Technology.
Other considerations
Professor Byakika has authored or co-written over 100 peer-reviewed articles, in the areas of her medical expertise in different medical journals.