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Alice KAYONGO is a public health practitioner, and human rights advocate with 17 years’ development experience working largely with civil society where she has held several positions. She is currently working as Senior Associate with O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Throughout her career, Alice has been working to lead efforts to amplify the voice of communities in decision making processes that affect their health and lives. Her work triggers ownership and increases communities’ meaningful participation in the health and development sector.

Additionally, Alice is an active researcher within women’s and children’s health and rights sector in Uganda, Africa and internationally. Her research interests for the health development sector are in community mobilisation and engagement in monitoring and evaluation of health service delivery at the community level, as well as in healthcare financing and health rights. Alice holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology as well as a Master of Public Health. She is a 2021 Harvard LEAD Fellow, a member of the Developing Country NGO Delegation of the Global Fund and volunteers on several boards including the Health GAP board, among others.