Gratitude to the Makerere University faculty.

Thank you for leading Makerere through its second century, an architect by training rebuilding an institution brick by brick, including the beloved Main Building itself.

Thank you for a career studying how gender shapes health systems in Uganda, and for becoming only the second woman in Makerere's hundred-year history to lead its academic affairs.

Thank you for over one hundred peer-reviewed contributions to HIV and immunology research and for leading the College of Health Sciences with a clinician's compassion and a scientist's standards.

Thank you for leading Makerere's School of Public Health into a continental force, and for research on HIV and health systems that treats Uganda's communities as partners, not subjects.

Thank you for uncovering a genetic clue to why pre-eclampsia strikes African mothers differently, and for turning that discovery into hope for safer pregnancies across the continent.

Thank you for being among the first physicians on earth to describe the disease Uganda called Slim, and for four decades of Rakai research that taught the world how to slow HIV.

Thank you for more than twenty-five years spent on the ailments that actually take African children, from pneumonia and malaria to sickle cell disease, and for the students who now carry your standards forward.

Thank you for recognizing a new disease on Ugandan wards in the early 1980s and answering it with a lifetime of research and reform that rebuilt medical education across East Africa.