Philippa Makobore is the Department Head of the Instrumentation Division at UIRI.  She received a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada and a Professional Certificate in Embedded Systems Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2016. Under her leadership, the Instrumentation Division has designed and developed award-winning medical devices that include a diagnostic tool for pneumonia and the Electronically Controlled Gravity Feed Infusion Set (ECGF).  The ECGF has been clinically validated in both adults and children with funding from Grand Challenges Canada.  She is the project lead for UIRI in the UBORA consortium that comprises of East African and European partners that have developed an e-platform for the design and development of open source medical devices (funded by a European Union Horizon 2020 grant). She is a member of the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, founding member of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Uganda Section. She was awarded Johnson and Johnson Africa Champion of Science (2019).  Her core expertise is the design of electronic applications that are appropriate and affordable for low resource contexts in healthcare. She will also champion gender equality issues in the consortium.