Dr. David Serwadda is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Public Health at Makerere University in Kamapala, Uganda. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Lecturer in Infectious Epidemiology at the University and as the Director of the Masters of Public Health Program. His various publications have tackled themes such as: alcohol use before sex and HIV acquisition, mortality in HIV-infected and uninfected children of HIV-infected and uninfected mothers in rural Uganda, and the role of sexual behavior change and the national response, just to name a few. He is a member of the Ugandan National Committee for the Prevention of AIDS and a member of the AIDS Research Subcommittee. His expertise has also been sought by the World Health Organization (WHO) in their Department of Reproductive Health and Research and the International Scientific Committee on research pertaining to AIDS and Associated Cancers in Africa.