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Dr. John Kiwanuka Ssemakula is a Ugandan currently working as a Public Health Consultant with the Africa America Institute (AAI) in New York, where he is the Programme Manager and Advisor on the AAI HIV/AIDS Initiative. He trained as a doctor at Ibadan University Medical School, Nigeria, and Makerere University, Kampala in Uganda where he received his medical degree. He subsequently took a Masters Degree in Public Health at Dundee University Medical School in Scotland, for which his Masters thesis was titled "HIV/AIDS and the Healthcare system in Uganda."

In 2004 Medilinks with John Kiwanuka Ssemakula is holding Africa Health Day, with the World Health Organisation Africa Regional Office Amref and Africare at the United Nations in New York.

Dr Kiwanuka Ssemakula testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, at a Senate Hearing Committee on Unsafe Health Care and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa - "Solutions to the Problem of Health Care Transmissions of HIV/AIDS in Africa" on July 31 2003.

He is also currently a participant and member of the "Safe Health Care and HIV Working Group" that is looking at the problem of the spread of HIV/AIDS through unsafe healthcare in Africa. In 2003 Spring term, he was a visiting lecturer at The Institute Of African Studies At The School Of International Affairs, Columbia University And The Africa-America Institute; "A NEPAD (New Partnership for African Development ) Political-Economy Series for which he lectured on:

"Combating The Human Resource Factor In Africa: AIDS, Other Communicable Diseases And Economic Development" &

"AIDS, Public Health, And Innovative Policy Intervention In African Development"

Dr Kiwanuka Ssemakula is also the moderator for the AAI African Perspectives- a series of online discussions aimed at getting the views and perspectives of Africans on contemporary issues. The online discussions have included topics on Workforce Development in Africa and the response of AfricanUniversities to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic which was done in partnership with the Association of African Universities. The African Perspectives is a component of the joint AAI/ AVU - African Technology for Education

He has had other articles and letters published and cited in journals, newsletters and on the internet including:

March 2003 "The Missing Link?" The spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa through unsafe medical care", International Journal of STD & AIDS Volume 14 Number 3 March 2003

September 2002, "The Impact of 9/11 on HIV/AIDS Care in Africa and the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB",Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC)Vol. 13, No. 5, September/October 2002

August 2002, "A Deadly Embrace: Famine and AIDS in Southern Africa " , AIDSLink

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