Paula Munderi

Dr. Paula Munderi is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC). Prior to joining IAPAC, Dr. Munderi worked for 15 years as a senior clinical scientist based at the Uganda Virus Research Institute, where she established a program in HIV Care Research, caring for several thousand PLHIV participants of clinical research trial cohorts. She was a lead investigator on several multisite studies on HIV treatment strategy in Africa including the DART trial and the START trial.

Before that, Dr. Munderi was a Medical Officer at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, contributing to normative guidance on HIV treatment and to policy on access to HIV medicines in resource-limited settings. Dr. Munderi has served on several scientific advisory panels and continues to serve as an advisor on HIV control policy to Uganda’s Ministry of Health. Dr. Munderi is a graduate of Makerere University School of Medicine in Kampala and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK).