epidemic in Sierra Leone. She served briefly as the Assistant Commissioner, Epidemiology and Surveillance at the Ministry of Health in Uganda, in 2015, but was requested to return to Sierra Leone to continue supporting the Ebola response until 2017. In 2018 and 2019 she served as a Consultant on Ebola Response in DRC and Rwanda. Other considerations In 2014, during the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, after Musenero had retired from the Uganda Ministry of Health, she was recalled to "offer technical advice in West Africa, because of her experience in handling Ebola". In early 2020, before Uganda recorded her first COVID-19 patient, Dr Musenero was appointed as a senior advisor to the president of Uganda, regarding the pandemic. She led a team of professionals and technocrats who planned strategy and advised the president on the way forward. Family Monica Musenero is married to Michael Masanza and together are the parents of three children. See also Health in Uganda References External links Interview with Dr. Monica Musenero, Senior Program Officer for the African Field Epidemiology Network, an NGO 1965 births Living people Women veterinarians Ugandan veterinarians Women biologists Ugandan biologists Ugandan epidemiologists 20th-century Ugandan women scientists People from Butebo District People from Eastern Region, Uganda Makerere University alumni Cornell University alumni 21st-century Ugandan women scientists 21st-century Ugandan scientists