{"id":2851,"date":"2023-08-21T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/?page_id=2851"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:51:54","slug":"gilbert-bukenya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/gilbert-bukenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Bukenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2851\" class=\"elementor elementor-2851\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5f21268 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5f21268\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a157892\" data-id=\"a157892\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c2457d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8c2457d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"s2\"><span class=\"s10\">Professor Gilbert <\/span><span class=\"s10\">Baalibaseka <\/span><span class=\"s10\">Bukenya is a graduate of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Makerere_University_School_of_Medicine\"><span class=\"s11\">Makerere University School of Medicine<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> ,with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bachelor_of_Medicine_and_Bachelor_of_Surgery\"><span class=\"s11\">Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MBChB\"><span class=\"s11\">MBChB<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\">). He worked as a Medical Officer at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mbale_Hospital\"><span class=\"s11\">Mbale Hospital<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> up to 1982 and then left Uganda for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papua_New_Guinea\"><span class=\"s11\">Papua New Guinea<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\">. <\/span><\/p><p class=\"s2\"><span class=\"s10\">While outside Uganda, he obtained a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_health\"><span class=\"s11\">Diploma in Public Health<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Institute_of_Public_Health\"><span class=\"s11\">Royal Institute of Public Health<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\">, in London, in 1982. He also attained the degrees of Master of Science (MSc) from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_School_of_Hygiene_and_Tropical_Medicine\"><span class=\"s11\">London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> UK, and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Queensland\"><span class=\"s11\">University of Queensland<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\">,<\/span> <span class=\"s10\">with a thesis topic of <\/span><span class=\"s13\">The <\/span><span class=\"s13\">Epidemiology of Under-Five Childhood Diarrhoeas in a Peri-Urban Population of Papua New Guinea<\/span><span class=\"s10\">.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"s14\"><span class=\"s10\">Gilbert Bukenya returned to Uganda as a Professor of Medicine and was appointed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dean_(education)\"><span class=\"s11\">dean<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Makerere_University_School_of_Medicine\"><span class=\"s11\">Makerere University School of Medicine<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\">, a position he held from 1994 until 1996.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"s2\"><span class=\"s15\">Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya<\/span><span class=\"s10\"> is a<\/span><span class=\"s10\">lso<\/span><span class=\"s10\"> Ugandan politician and physician who was the seventh<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vice_president_of_Uganda\"><span class=\"s11\">vice president of Uganda<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> from 23 May 2003 until 23 May 2011. He has represented the constituency of Busiro County North in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parliament_of_Uganda\"><span class=\"s11\">Ugandan Parliament<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s10\"> since 1996.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d1dd30f\" data-id=\"d1dd30f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e914a2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e914a2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Prof.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2856\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Prof.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Prof-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Gilbert Baalibaseka Bukenya is a graduate of Makerere University School of Medicine ,with the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB). He worked as a Medical Officer at Mbale Hospital up to 1982 and then left Uganda for Papua New Guinea. While outside Uganda, he obtained a Diploma in Public Health from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2851","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2851\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbertconsult.com\/lca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}