Dr. Michael Mugisha is a faculty member at the University of Rwanda’s College of Medicine and Health Sciences and School of Public Health. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of  Rwanda and a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from Kigali Health Institute (now part of the University of Rwanda). He has worked at the University of Rwanda in various research, teaching, and managerial roles. Mugisha has a wide range of technical skills in conducting research projects that involve multiple stakeholders both local and international. He has engaged in designing, applying for grants, and implementing research projects. 

Mugisha has managed CDC-PEPFAR and EU-funded Implementation Science Research. He has a distinguished record of accomplishments in steering collaborations with local teams from the Ministry of Health (MoH), Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), Rwanda Education Board (REB), and various NGOs, through joint research activities. Mugisha lectures a Health Measurement and Research module and unit courses in Biostatistics at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has also contributed to the revision of the Master of Health Informatics curriculum and contributed to the development of Advanced Professional training courses for in-services for staff in the Rwanda Ministry of Health  (MoH) and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC). His academic interests and research work relate to the design, development,  implementation, and evaluation of innovations applied in health to improve health outcomes in low-resource settings.