Richard Ssekitoleko is a physician and epidemiologist with over ten years’ experience in research and lecturing internal medicine and four years’ experience in managing public health emergencies, disease outbreak preparedness, response and recovery. Richard has been at the forefront of averting and controlling different epidemics in various African countries including the largest Ebola outbreak in world history (2014-2015 in West Africa), Meningitis and Cholera outbreaks in Imatong state, South Sudan in 2016, the 2019 Ebola outbreak in Kasese district, Uganda and now the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda.He has worked in various capacities and in different organisations including; the African Union, USAID, WHO, and IGAD and has participated in designing Uganda’s current Viral Haemorrhagic fever (VHF) national guidelines and standards. He has conducted emergency preparedness and readiness assessments for many districts across Uganda. Presently he is conducting Ebola preparedness and COVID-19 response activities in the South-Western Uganda districts for Surveillance, Case Management, Infection Prevention, and Control Pillars. As an experienced researcher and lecturer of epidemiology, his research work has resulted in publications in a number of peer reviewed journals Passionate about mentoring and sharing knowledge with health workers and communities, researching and training on infectious diseases, general medicine, and epidemiology, he also enjoys meeting new people and experiencing new cultures.