Dr. Tonny Tumwesigye is the Executive Director at Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB). He holds a Master of Science Degree in Public Health and Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health from the University of London/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine United Kingdom. Dr. Tumwesigye also holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Degree from Makerere University in Kampala Uganda.

Dr. Tumwesigye is an experienced Institutional and Programme Manager and has over 10 years of experience having worked as a frontline General practitioner in a rural and resource limited setting. Dr. Tumwesigye served as the Medical Superintendent and Chief Executive Officer at Kisiizi Hospital for 9 years. During his tenure, he oversaw the Transformation of Kisiizi Hospital and Kisiizi School of Nursing into one of the best General Hospitals and Training health Institutions in Uganda respectively.

During this time, Dr. Tumwesigye also served as a Director for Kisiizi Hospital Power Limited (KHPL) one of the first Mini-hydro electricity companies in Uganda where he played a key role in its establishment and ensuring that it generates, transmits and distributes electricity in South Western Uganda. This helped sustain the Hospital while economically empowering the surrounding communities.

Dr. Tumwesigye is the World Health Organisation (WHO) African Partnerships for Patient Safety (APPS) (a programme that is driving improvements in the safety of health-care systems across the WHO African region by building sustainable partnerships between Hospitals in countries of the WHO African Region and hospitals in Europe) Focal point in Uganda since 2009 and has been involved in co-developing the Patient Safety agenda for the first wave Hospitals in Africa together with the WHO APPS Team.

In 2010, Dr. Tumwesigye received a Presidential Honour “the Distinguished service award for his Outstanding contribution to health services delivery in Uganda”.