Dr. Kasasa is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Makerere University School of Public Health. He holds a PhD from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, a Master’s of Science from Case Western Reserve University, USA and a Bachelors in Statistics from Makerere University. His PhD focused on Bayesian modeling and mapping mortality of malaria transmission intensity using tow health demographic surveillance sites data in Africa. He is involved in teaching including students’ supervision and research activities at the School of Public Health and the entire College of Health Sciences.

Research areas include: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Pneumonia, TB and health systems. He  is an Epidemiologist on the on-going national TB prevalence survey; mapping HIV high risk places in Uganda; the baseline survey for evaluating Cross-Border Health Integrated Partnership Project (CB-HIPP) and spatial  also as statistician at the Supporting Policy Engagement for Evidence-Based Decisions (SPEED) project. Dr. Kasasa is a Field Coordinator for the Masters of Public Health (Distance Education) program. He is a member of the Higher Degrees, Research and Ethics committee and a board member of the Institute Technical Board of Makerere University Lung Institute.