Dr. Richard K. Mugambe is a Senior Lecturer at Makerere University School of Public Health. He received a Bachelor of Environmental Health Sciences degree from Makerere University; a Masters in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University, the Netherlands; and a PhD in Global Health from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Richard is the Principal Investigator of the Gates Funded PROMISE Consortium project. He is involved in teaching, community service and research. In the last 10 years, he has paid special attention to:
1. Research on using novel tools in quantifying and tracking pathogens in urban and rural environments
2. WASH and IPC assessments in healthcare facilities, schools and households in Uganda.
3. Estimation of the effects of WASH interventions in controlling the transmission of infectious diseases
4. Behaviour change interventions for improving WASH practices in health facilities and slums
5. Creating an open-source modelling toolkit that can be used to quantify and visualise the impact of climate change and socio-economic development on waterborne pathogens and AMR bacteria in surface water and consequent disease risk.
6. Research on sustainable development goals (SDGs): Governance, trade-offs and synergies in urban slums.
7. Translating research into National policies and guidelines

His research has been funded by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Dutch Research Council, & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among others.
His publications are available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard¬Mugambe/publications