Dr. David Serwadda serves as HPTN's International Lead Investigator. He is a professor of infectious diseases and former Dean of the School of Public Health at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Dr. Serwadda has worked in HIV-related research and prevention since the mid-1980s and was among the first to report AIDS in Uganda. He is a senior investigator on the Rakai Health Sciences Program and is the Ugandan principal investigator in the ongoing NIH-funded trial of male circumcision for HIV prevention. The recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Serwadda is a JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health Scholar, a fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Science, and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
