Dr Sandra Mukasa

Deputy Group Leader: GMGH

MBChB, Diploma in the Management of HIV and AIDS, MBA candidate

CHI research group: General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH)
CHI membership: Associate member

Sandra Mukasa is a senior medical officer. She trained at the University of Cape Town and later did her post-graduate diploma in HIV management at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She worked for the City of Cape Town in primary health care clinics focusing on HIV and TB management before she joined the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine as a sub-investigator in 2015. She has worked on single and multicentre studies and clinical trials and has been the lead site investigator since 2017. In 2019, she became the deputy director of the General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH) research group.

Research engagements:

Tuberculosis treatment trials
Tuberculosis vaccine trials
Post tuberculosis cardiopulmonary disease
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis household contact studies