Dr. John Barugahare’s background is in political Philosophy and later in bioethics. He underwent post-doctoral training at in bioethics Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of bioethics. He received both his MPhil and PhD in philosophy from the University of Bergen, and Bachelor of Arts Honors from Makerere University. He is a Senior Lecturer in, and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Makerere University. His research focus in applied ethics and human rights, with a more specific focus on bioethics, and more narrowly on healthcare and public ethics and human rights, and ethics in international collaborative health research. Barugahare teaches, among other things, Critical thinking, Professional Ethics, Philosophy of method, Research ethics among others. He has been and still is actively involved research, curriculum development, training, and guidelines development, and other consultation services in bioethics. He is also faculty in the Fogarty-NIH funded Master of Health Sciences in Bioethics programme at the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University. He has chaired the Committee for Developing National Guidelines for Community Engagement in Research, under Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST). He has been a visiting scholar in bioethics at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K., and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has membership to the School of Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee, and Mulago National Referral Hospital Research Ethics Committee.