Livingstone Luboobi

Livingstone Sserwadda Luboobi (1944–2025) was a Ugandan mathematician and academic administrator. Luboobi earned degrees in mathematics from Makerere University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Adelaide. He began his academic career at Makerere University in the 1970s, where was a professor of Biomathematics and served as Vice Chancellor from 2004 to 2009. He also held an adjunct professorship at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology between 2013 and 2017. He is a founding leader of the African Society for Biomathematics, he served as the chairman of the Ugandan Mathematical Society and he was also a Member of Uganda National Council for Science and Technology. He was an elected fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences. His research areas covered mathematical modelling for infectious diseases in East Africa such as Ebola, HIV/AIDS, malaria, Rift Valley fever, and trypanosomiasis. Provided by Wikipedia