Prof. Grace Ndeezi is the UNAS Treasurer and Council Member. She is a Paediatrics and Child Health professor at Makerere University of Health Sciences and a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS). She holds a PhD from Makerere University and the University of Bergen (joint). She is an active researcher, has 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has published on various topics in her field, mainly on Nutrition, HIV, Pneumonia, Malaria, Sickle cell anaemia, diarrhoeal diseases, neonatal Health and child health interventions such as immunization, breastfeeding and other common childhood diseases. She is a reviewer for several scientific journals and an editor of communication for better health digest. She has won competitive research grants such as Grand Challenges Canada, NIH and European Union. Most grants have involved collaborative research with institutions such as Tufts, University of Montpellier, University of Bergen, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the World Health Organization. She is an excellent teacher and clinician. She has supervised 28 Masters of Medicine dissertations to completion, supervising 4 PhD students and has examined PhD candidates since 2012. She has also taught HIV courses at the University of Bergen. She is a member of several committees at the College of Health Sciences, the Joint Clinical Research Centre, Uganda, and the Infectious Diseases Institute (Makerere University) Research Committees. She is committed to serving the wider community and has been an external examiner for Gulu, Mbarara, Nkozi and the University of Zimbabwe.  She has worked with committees of Uganda National Health Programs such as paediatric HIV, Malaria, and Newborn Health and also facilitated courses in Eritrea and Kenya.