Agnes Ssali (PhD) is a senior social scientist at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit and Research Fellow in the department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She is trained in Social Work and Social Administration, with an MA in Social Sector Planning and Management, a post graduate diploma in public health and a PhD in international development from the University of East Anglia, UK. For her doctorate she conducted research on informed consent in clinical trials.
Agnes has 30 years of research and implementation in the field of HIV and AIDS in Uganda. She has led several projects exploring behavioural, cultural, and social aspects of health that affect vulnerable populations including female sex workers and their children. She has conducted research with HIV discordant couples and, among recent projects, has conducted research with pregnant women on vaccinations in pregnancy. Other recent research has focussed on inclusivity of persons with disability in education and employment and leading the social science component of a planned controlled human infection study for schistosomiasis mansoni.