Prof Annettee Nakimuli is the Dean School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Makerere University. Annettee trained as a medical doctor and later as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Makerere University. She has a PhD in Medicine and her doctoral training was undertaken at Makerere and Cambridge Universities. She is a clinically active and a researcher. Annettee has previously been Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Makerere University. She has won many large research grants and is widely published in peer reviewed journals. Her research group mainly investigates the “Great obstetrical syndromes” (pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction, stillbirth, preterm birth) and maternal infections in African women. Her studies aim at developing tools to improve prediction, management and prevention of these pregnancy complications. Noteworthy, she conducted the first genetic study of pre-eclampsia in Africa.
Annettee is currently a Gates-funded Calestous Juma (CJ) Science Leadership Fellow, an International Fellow at Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK and a FLAIR Fellow (Future Leaders-African Independent Research) of the Royal Society. In her CJ fellowship project, she is prospectively collecting biological samples and clinical data from a large cohort of women throughout their pregnancies at Kawempe and Mulago Hospitals in Kampala to identify predictive biomarkers of adverse pregnancy outcomes, and establish a biobank and database to facilitate future research. She will also implement artificial intelligence for data analysis to identify relevant socio-epidemiological, clinical, and biological features that contribute to the development of adverse pregnancy outcomes with a focus on the “Great Obstetrical Syndromes”.
Annettee serves on several national and international committees on maternal health, including the National Safemotherhood Expert Committee where she chairs the pre-eclampsia subcommittee. She is the President of the East Central and Southern Africa College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ECSACOG) which brings together obstetricians/gynaecologists in the 14 member countries. Annettee is an internationally renowned maternal health researcher committed to building maternal research capacity in Africa.
