Dr. Irene Lubega is a Consultant Paediatrician with over 20 years of experience working a Mulago National Referral Hospital and conducting research at MU-JHU Care Ltd.

She has been an Investigator in several HIV clinical trials that focused on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. These studies included among others, the NIH funded HIVNET012, HIVIGLOB/NVP, PROMISE Study and the P1092 study.

She is currently the Co-PI for the MIRASOL study, a pathogen reduction study to improve blood safety.