Dr. Esther Buregyeya is currently a Lecturer in the Department Disease Control and Environmental Health-School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences at Makerere University- Kampala. She attained a Medical Doctor (MBChB) degree from Makerere University, Uganda in 1998. She later did her Master of Philosophy in Health Sciences (Occupational Health) at the University of Bergen, Norway in 2004. Her research focus is on TB and HIV.