Catherine Sozi, Director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, has spent more than 25 years in public service. Her passion for advancing global health began in the United Kingdom, where she obtained her medical degree from Saint Mary’s Hospital Medical School, University of London. She specialized in family medicine and has worked in the AIDS and health sector in the United Kingdom and Uganda, within government, the private sector and nongovernmental facilities, with a focus on HIV prevention and AIDS care management for people living with HIV and sexual and reproductive health care for young people and adolescents.
She joined UNAIDS in 2000 and has been the Country Director for Zambia and South Africa and, more recently, China.
She holds a post-graduate diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology and also holds Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (United Kingdom). Ms Sozi is fluent in English and Luganda and learned some basic Mandarin during her stay in China.
