Byron Bitanihirwe

Dr. Byron Bitanihirwe serves as the Mental Health Research and Development programme manager at Science for Africa (SFA) Foundation. Prior to joining SFA Foundation, Byron was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Global Health within the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, where he structured and led funded projects with Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto with a focus on translational psychiatry. He secured a Roche Postdoctoral Fellowship and has served as a Research Portfolio Analyst with MQ: Transforming Mental Health. He holds a PhD in neurobiology from ETH Zürich.