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For over eight years, Sharifu has advocated for people living with sickle cell disease to have rights to independent thinking, participate freely in community activities or further Agency and enjoy the same privileges as the ‘normal’ people in Uganda

Across the region, Sharifu has played a key role in supporting sickle cell advocacy. Sharifu was instrumental in the launch of the East Africa Sickle Cell Alliance. He worked with the Pan African Sickle Cell Federation International to support grassroots initiatives and build membership across East and Central Africa. Sharifu is a 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow. He is also a 2018 Telemachus Fellow under the Global Thinkers Forum (UK). He is a recipient of the 2018 Clarke International University Most Outstanding community outreach award.

In 2012, he worked at the Central Public health laboratory [1], Ministry of Health (Uganda) [2]. In 2013, he took on the role of Executive Director for the Uganda Sickle Cell Rescue Foundation, Kampala. In the same year, he also took on the role of assistant professor at the Institute of Allied Health Sciences at Clarke International University, Kampala.

Sharifu's career started in 2009 at Makerere University College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resource and Biosecurity where he worked as a research assistant until 2010. He then moved on to work as a Biomedical laboratory technologist in the same university and department from 2010–2012.

Sharifu Kiragga Tusuubira (born January 4, 1991) is one of Uganda's leading sickle cell advocates. He is best recognized for his role in starting community sickle cell screening in Uganda. An initiative that enables people to take the sickle cell screening test and receive results instantly from the confines of their villages.

Sharifu was born on January 4, 1991, in Kampala to Ashadu Zizinga, a health inspector and Ritah Bazanya, a police officer. Sharifu received his bachelor's degree in biomedical medical technology from Makerere University in 2012. He later went on to graduate with a master's degree in biomedical laboratory science and management from the same university. In 2017, he attended the Civic Leadership Institute at Kansas State University. He was the first Executive Director of the Uganda Sickle Cell Rescue Foundation (USCRF) a non-profit organization working to promote awareness, sensitization and fighting Sickle Cell Disease in Uganda (a position he held until July 2019).