Annet Alenyo

Annet is an Emergency Physician and Senior Technical Advisor on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the Ministry of Health, and currently works clinically at the national Ambulance Service and the Mulago Hospital COVID-19 high dependency (HDU) and intensive care unit (ICU).

She is passionate about improving emergency care in resource-limited settings with particular emphasis on acute care human resource and infrastructure capacity building, clinical management of acute illness, and emergency care education. She has spoken at different local, regional, and international emergency care and critical care conferences including the World Health Summit, International Conference on Emergency Medicine (ICEM), African Conference on Emergency Medicine (AfCEM), Conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), SMACC (Social Media and Critical Care Conference), Sepsis 2021 among others.

Annet is a co-founder and past president of the Emergency Care Society of Uganda, the current President of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM), and a member of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) committee for Clinical practice.

She was recently awarded the Prof. Josephine Nambooze Women in Medicine Award of the Uganda Medical Association for her work in building capacity for emergency and critical care for the COVID-19 response in Uganda.

Her research interests are emergency care systems improvement, disaster medicine, and critical care.

She plans to focus on various cost-effective strategies and capacity building to improve emergency care systems and patient management in the low-resource acute care setting.