Tom Muyunga-Mukasa AHA, APHA, APSA

Tom is a 2025 CDC United States (U.S.) TB Elimination Champion and a recipient of the White House Commendation. An iteration expert on HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria initiatives integrating Pandemic Preparedness and Response & Funding Policy. A skilled health care provider, an iterative research and program implementer in the three interfacing dimensions: health; development and; social justice with emphasis on the UN SDGs. Tom has experience and skills in designing durable projects cascading into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and beyond including the UNHLM 2023 and 2035. Tom is a versatile design and systems thinking practitioner; Vulnerability and Susceptibility Chain (VASC) narrative synthesizer/practitioner and has effectively participated in a range of short and long-term activities: community organization, Social change catalysis, passionate justice and civil rights advocacy, quality improvement consultant, worked as an epidemiologist, environmental health specialist, writer, poet and motivational speaker. Tom has formulated robust empirical methods to generate data which can be used as theory or practice to inform policy about the underlying affective and cognitive parameters impacting dignity of all persons, informing TB, Malaria, HIV eradication, integrating COVID-19 Prevention, entrenching environment conservation consciousness and safety at the workplace. An indefatigable, passion-driven catalyser of people-led and people-centered empowerment for communities building resilience systems and structures in over 25 African countries for many years, a life in the USA, Thailand, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France and Turkey. A trainer in viable community groups as sustainable empowering linkages, social transformation achievements and best-practices. Against this background rooted in organizing, with a strong understanding of health and development trends and their application to transform communities into livable societies, Tom walks the line intersecting equity, rights, dignity-affirmation, health and development promotion, works with and in a diverse range of cultural-settings. Outside work, this griot-poet, entertains through the spoken or written word, engages communities with stories curried with Afro-Aesopian morals. Talk of house chores, gardens, Tom does tricks in the kitchen, cleans the yard, rears birds, scared of dogs, listens to the radio, mostly current affairs, is a debater, a movie-aficionado, enjoys long country-walks, and simply adores reggae and socca music in all genres. Tom dreams of travelling the whole world.