Misinde profile
Dr Cyprian Misinde is the Director of Quality Assurance at Makerere University. He joined the Directorate in October 2022. His main role is to lead, initiate, design, direct, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the processes of services provided at the university,
which include the admission of students, teaching and learning, assessments, recruitment of staff, financial processes, graduation, procurement, experiential learning, research, policy developments, collaborations, partnership and linkage to
other institutions are done in the most efficient, effective, inclusive, and accountable way as per the strategic plan and the established standards in the University, and as per the nationally and internationally agreed norms. And to
develop systems for quality assurance in the University.
Cyprian holds a PhD in Childhood Studies from Queen’s University Belfast. He is a Social and Population Scientist. His research interest has focussed on Child well-being and poverty measurements, improving learning in schools in Uganda, reproductive health, vulnerable populations such as children of incarcerated parents lift at home, challenges and experiences of informal carers who care for people suffering from noncommunicable diseases in Uganda, and drug use among boda boda cyclists in
Uganda. Cyprian is a DHS Fellow in 2015 and a Commonwealth Fellow in 2011.
Previously, he was the Head of the Department of Population Studies at, the School of Statistics and Planning College of Business and Management Sciences. He also worked as a Senior Lecturer in the above Department. He has also done consulting work in the area of Quality Assurance in Local Government assessments in Uganda and other consultancies with highly reputable organisations, which include: UNDP, The World Bank, UNFPA, UBOS, office of the Prime Minister of Uganda, among others.
Cyprian is a member of the Board of Directors of the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU); and Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP). He is also a member of the Makerere University Intellectual Property Committee and a member of the Central Management and Top Management of Makerere University. Cyprian is also the President of the James Ochola Memorial Secondary School Old Students Association.