Dr Bruce Kirenga is Chief Research Scientist and founding Director of the Makerere University Lung Institute. He is also Senior Lecturer (Pulmonary Medicine) in the Department of Medicine, Makerere University. Bruce formally trained in internal medicine at Makerere University and completed specialty registrar training in Pulmonary Medicine at Mulago Hospital and proceeded to complete an additional year of clinical and research training in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale University, USA. Bruce also completed a 2-year Masters clinical research fellowship of the University of Amsterdam offered at the University of Rwanda, School of Public Health in Rwanda. He completed a PhD in Medicines from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands.
Dr Kirenga has been Teaching Pulmonary, General Internal Medicine and Ethics since 2009 when he joined the Department of Medicine’s Pulmonology Unit. He is a mentor of several junior physicians in Pulmonary Medicine and Epidemiology. Bruce’s main interest are in clinical and epidemiological research in the areas of obstructive lung diseases and their determinants as well as tuberculosis. Recently he has established a lung cancer research program and is actively involved COVID-19 research.
