Regina Mariam Namata Kamoga

Regina is the Executive Director of Community Health And Information Network (CHAIN) in Uganda. The organisation promotes the empowerment of people living with and affected by HIV, TB, Malaria and non communicable diseases. CHAIN also supports vulnerable children and promotes health literacy, patient centered care and patient safety.

She holds a Masters degree in Public Administration & Management, Bachelor of Education from Makerere University, Kampala and Postgraduate Diploma in Project Planning & Management.

She has served on numerous health advisory committees at national and international level and is a board member of The Ugandan Academy of Health Innovation and Impact, and the World Patient Alliance. She is also a founder member and chairperson of the Uganda Alliance of Patients Organisations.

One of her key roles is as a WHO Patient Safety champion and she is a member of the WHO’s Patients For Patient Safety advisory group. In this capacity she has co convened meetings with the Ministry of Health, WHO, National Drug Authority, AFROSAFE and Uganda Alliance of patients Organizations (UAPO) and set up links between the MoH, CHAIN, Nottingham Trent University and Makerere law school, and coauthored the Patient safety chapter in the WHO-TDR report on Implementation Research for the control of diseases of poverty.

Other roles include membership of the Ugandan ministry of Health's Working Group on Supervision, Monitoring Research and Evaluation and National Quality Improvement, and input into the work conducted by the Council For International Organisations For Medicines Sciences into drug development and safe use of medicines in developing countries.