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MEDIA CENTER Jotham Musinguzi, Ugandan Public Health Expert, Elected to Population Council Board of Trustees
NEW YORK (17 June 2005) — The Population Council's board of trustees elected Jotham Musinguzi, 55, as its newest member during the board’s June meeting in New York City. Musinguzi, a public health physician and obstetrician/gynecologist, is the director of the Population Secretariat of the Ugandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. He serves on the board of the Uganda National Planning Authority and is a trustee of the Commonwealth Medical Association Trust in London. Musinguzi is chairman of the executive board of the International Council on Management of Population Programs (ICOMP), based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a board member of the South-to-South Partners in Population and Development, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Formerly a consultant to Mulago Hospital and a senior lecturer at Makerere University Medical School, Musinguzi is past president of the Uganda Medical Association. He holds M.B.Ch.B. and M.Med, degrees from Makerere University in Uganda and an M.P.H. from the State University of New York. He earned a diploma in International Health from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Population Council president Peter J. Donaldson expressed his high regard for Musinguzi and his pleasure with the doctor’s appointment to the board, saying, “Jotham Musinguzi focuses his remarkable energies on many of the same issues as the Council: population and development, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive health. We welcome his contributions to the board and expect them to further our efforts to improve the health of and opportunities for the world’s most vulnerable people.” The Population Council’s board of trustees now comprises 14 men and women who are originally from nine countries—Germany, India, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Sweden, Uganda, and the United States. See Also
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