Dr. Musa Sekikubo is a senior lecturer of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda and an independent consultant for MU-JHU Care Ltd. He is the local Principal Investigator of Sero-epidemiology of maternally derived antibodies against group B Streptococcus (funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), preparatory work for GBS maternal vaccine trials (EDCTP-funded) and Clinical manifestation of Covid-19 among pregnant women.
Since 2006, Dr. Sekikubo has been an active clinician mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students. He intensified his clinical research after graduating from Karolinska Institute with a doctorate in infection biology. He currently supervises two doctoral students in the thematic areas of maternal vaccination and vaginal microbiota.
He also offers supportive roles to MTN studies that are conducted in Kawempe National Referral Hospital. His main interest is research on maternal immunization to reduce maternal morbidity and improve neonatal outcomes.