Mr. Emmanuel Kamuhire is the CEO and co-Founder at A-Lite Uganda Ltd. He is the lead Design Engineer for Vein Locator, a project funded by the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech).
He holds a BSc. (Hons) in Computer Engineering (Data Communications Engineering –Major) from Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) with a passion for innovations especially in Maternal New-born and Child Health.
Emmanuel briefly volunteered with the Faculty of Computing and Informatics Sciences from 2013 to 2015 as a Tutorial Assistant, supporting the Computer Engineering and Information Technology Program and thereafter with Global Health Collaborative before venturing into electronics applications design and development at CAMTech Uganda.
He leads a team of: Medical, Business, Computer and Biomedical Engineers that design affordable and appropriate healthcare solutions for developing nations, and to date, the team has over 5 projects with 1 medical device prototype in its advanced stage. These projects have won both international and local awards including a 1 st place Innovation Award at the 2016 CAMTech Uganda Surgery Hack-a-thon.
He has served as an organiser, facilitator, mentor and judge at different innovation competitions, the most recent being:
Shortlisting Judge for Up Accelerate WAY Edition, a social innovation incubator that seeks to support up-to eighty (80) youths (Refugees and Non-refugees) in Uganda to develop and implement break-through entrepreneurial solutions/businesses for the improvement of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Gender Based Violence (GBV) outcomes.
Facilitator and mentor at the 1 st Edition of the Club Vision Santé (CVS) MedTech Hack-a-thon at Kira Hospital in Bujumbura – Burundi with the theme:” Innovating to improve health in Burundi.”
Organizer and facilitator at the 6 th Annual CAMTech Uganda MedTech Hack-a-thon at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mbarara – Uganda, with the theme: “Innovating to improve community health services to attain universal health coverage.”
Shortlisting judge for the 2017 Hult Prize Accelerator whose vision is to provide life changing education and transformative experiences to people everywhere – Kampala International University (KIU), Uganda.
Facilitator at the 2017 World Health Students’ Symposium (WHSS-2017) MedTech Hack-a-thon hosted by the University of Rwanda (UR), Kigali – Rwanda with the theme: "Towards the SDGs Agenda 2030: The role of a multidisciplinary approach in healthcare."
Over time, Emmanuel has built his brand as a consultant in research and innovation, and he has inspired a number of innovators to launch start-ups that solve the most pressing global challenges.