Dr. Diana Stella Nasike is a Health Security Policy Officer at Uganda’s National Public Health Emergency Operations Centre as well as a Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Health’s Directorate of Public Health, with a proven track record of enhancing national public health emergency preparedness and response efforts. She possesses a wealth of experience in disease surveillance, early detection and response; national IHR capacity development; public health emergency management; incident management systems; national multi-sectoral engagement on international health security treaties; and linking public health and national security.
Dr. Nasike has supported national enhancement of early warning, alert and response (EWAR) systems for epidemic-prone diseases; coordinated national initiatives on biosecurity; evaluated the progressive implementation of the National Action Plan on Health Security; been on the national expert panel for the Linking Public Health and Security Authorities technical area in Uganda’s 2023 Joint External Evaluation (JEE); and facilitated national engagements around the Global Health Security Agenda and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
Dr. Nasike’s expertise also includes: multi-hazard risk assessment for health systems strengthening; integrated disease surveillance and response; public health emergency operations, preparedness and response; and strategic multi-sectoral stakeholder engagement. In executing her duties, Dr. Nasike has facilitated collaboration around health security among key stakeholders from the Office of the President, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), the Ministry of Health (MOH), the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries & Fisheries (MAAIF), the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs (MODVA), the Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL), the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST), Civil Society Organisations, and the Uganda Health Federation (private sector).
Outside of work, Diana enjoys cooking, watching nature documentaries and volunteering in her local community.