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Charles Batte Dr. Charles Batte was born in Kamwokya; one of the most impoverished slums in Uganda. He grew up in an environment characterised by lack of opportunity, poverty, crime, drugs and poor health service delivery. This early experience inculcated in him a spirit of social responsibility that has been responsible for his work towards sustainable development. For his work he won the 2012 World Merit Global Ambassador for Social Entrepreneurship award travelling to over 20 countries on 5 continents to inspire and work with youths, in 2013 he was named Global Laureate Fellow by the International Youth Foundation. In 2014 he was a finalist in the HRH the Prince of Wales award for sustainable living entrepreneurs. In 2015 he was named Dalai Lama Fellow for social entrepreneurs, winner at the US Department of Sate - Global Innovation through Science and technology (GIST) competition at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit - Nairobi organized and attended by President Obama of the USA, winner of the United Nation’s Framework on Climate change Conference (UNFCC)Youth video Award and the Common Wealth Youth Bright Ideas competition. He has recently been invited to give key note speeches at the World Forestry Congress by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and at the youth event during the Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta. He was a World Merit expert for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 3 - Health and well being mentoring youth from all around the world working is the health sector. He is currently a Health Economics Research Fellow at Makerere University Lung Institute, working at the nexus of infectious disease modelling, health economics, and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) with the aim of answering questions of relevance to patients and policy makers.

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