Pamela Wairagala

Pamela Wairagala

Knowledge and Communications Manager

I am a Communications specialist with over 15 years' experience in the areas of internal and external corporate communications, stakeholder engagement, media relations, brand management as well as development of information, education and communications (IEC) materials. 

I have developed and led the implementation of IEC and stakeholder engagement strategies for institutions in various sectors including biomedical research, environment and health. 

I am passionate about communications and knowledge management and their role in fostering involvement, empowerment and social development. 

My Projects

BUILD

Boosting Uganda’s investment in livestock development

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My Blog Posts

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) director general, Apollinaire Djikeng (right), presented a plaque to the Minister of State for Animal Industry, Hon. Bright Rwamirama, in appreciation of the support accorded to the ILRI by the ministry over the past 12 years (photo credit ILRI/Go Promotions).

ILRI News

ILRI celebrates 12 years of supporting the transformation of Uganda’s livestock sector

A poultry farmer in Wakiso attends to day-old chicks in a brooder (photo credit: ILRI/Pamela Wairagala).

ILRI News

Improving biosecurity to reduce antimicrobial use and poultry losses in Uganda

Panelists discuss ‘One Health in academia’, moderated by ILRI's Florence Mutua, extreme right (photo credit: COHESA/Catherine Wood).

ILRI News

Second Malawi symposium promotes One Health in research and academia

Students visit a slaughterhouse in Nyabugogo, Kigali during an infectious diseases’ management training (photo credit: COHESA/ Jean de Dieu Mana)

ILRI News

COHESA One Health training equips university students to manage infectious diseases in Africa

Illustration of the One Health approach by primary school pupils in Uganda (photo credit: COHESA/YOLIDA).

Painting the future of One Health in Ugandan schools

Participants at the February 2024 environment and ecosystem workshop in Hwange, Zimbabwe

ILRI News

Integrating environmental and ecosystem health into One Health – choices, contexts and communities matter

District officials, ILRI and E4Impact staff and beneficiaries of the pig-entrepreneur training after the launch of the program in Masaka (photo credit: ILRI/Pamela Wairagala).

ILRI News

Power in numbers: Farmers, traders and lenders explore expansion of pig businesses in Uganda

Biobanking training

ILRI News

Uganda biobanking training launches new initiative to preserve Africa’s indigenous chickens

Uganda Research Regulators Forum

ILRI News

Uganda inaugurates research regulators' forum to strengthen compliance

Mixed crop- livestock farming in Mbarara, Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Pamela Wairagala)

ILRI News

Research in Uganda highlights need to focus on small ruminants in brucellosis prevention and control

Insectary at NaLIRRI

ILRI News

Entomological studies to inform Rift Valley fever control in Uganda

Participants at the SAPLING Uganda Nutrition stakeholders' workshop- May 2023

ILRI News

FoodSENSE offers new ways of assessing and tackling malnutrition in Uganda

Scene from AMR skit

ILRI News

Youth symposium ignites creativity in preventing antimicrobial resistance

ILRI News

Uganda biobank to promote access to livestock samples and data

BUILD project’s Joseph Nkamwesiga wins inaugural FAO award for research on goat plague

PPR epidemiology to inform risk-based control in Uganda

Open Data Kit to improve livestock disease surveillance and reporting in Uganda

The status of pig welfare in selected districts of Uganda: implications for health and productivity interventions

ILRI News

FeedCalculator app and Good Manufacturing Practices and Quality Assurance Handbook to improve animal feed in Uganda

ILRI News

AMR team hosts media café to commemorate 2021 World antimicrobial awareness week

Meat inspectors refresher training to promote food safety in Uganda

BUILD Uganda launches quarterly newsletter

A gendered assessment in the production and use of feeds and forages: Insights from intensive and extensive livestock production systems in Uganda

Participants at the stakeholder meeting

ILRI News

Stakeholders call for more collaboration in Rift Valley fever surveillance and control in Uganda

Improving food safety in Uganda: Piloting the nudge theory to change risky practices amongst Uganda’s pork handlers

ILRI News

1.5million vaccine doses procured to tackle PPR in Uganda

BUILD’s Velma Kivali wins ‘Women in Livestock Research’ category in the 2021 CapDev Grand Challenge