Journal of Pharmacovigilance

Michael Makanga

Biography

 Dr Makanga is the Chief Executive Officer of the EDCTP Association Secretariat and reports to the EDCTP General Assembly through the Board. He is a clinician-scientist born and raised in Uganda with 25 years of professional experience working on health and poverty-related diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. This includes 21 years of work experience on medical product development and clinical regulatory activities. He holds a Medical Degree from Makerere University, Uganda, and has been in various clinical and research positions before and after undertaking a Master’s Degree at the University of Liverpool, and then a PhD at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Scotland. European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), The Hague,  Netherlands