Education
Makerere University; Case Western Reserve University.
Makerere University; Case Western Reserve University.
From 25 July 2013 to 28 February 2015, he served as State Minister for Health (General Duties), replacing Sarah Kataike, who became State Minister for Luweero Triangle in the Office of the Prime Minister. He was promoted to the post of Minister of Health on 1 March 2015, taking a slot left vacant since 18 September 2014, when Ruhakana Rugunda was appointed Prime Minister. Elioda Tumwesigye was born in Sheema District on 5 April 1964 to Yekonia Kasyamutwe and Esteeri Kasyamutwe.
He attended Ntare School for his O-Level education, graduating in 1981, and for his A-Level studies where he was elected Head Boy, and later graduated in 1984 as the third best performing student in the country.
He holds the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, obtained from Makerere University in 1990. While at university, he started the Sheema University Student"s Association, which is still active as of March 2015.
He was also elected Health Secretary of University Hall, a men"s Hall of Residence at Makerere in which he resided. In 1997, he obtained the degree of Master of Science in Epidemiology, from Case Western Reserve University.
Foreign eleven years, from 1990 until 2001, he worked as a medical officer at the Uganda Ministry of Health, serving in the Epidemiology Studies Unit during the last four years, from 1997 until 2001.
In September 2013, he was appointed Minister of State for Health (General Duties), and was appointed full Health Minister in March 2015.
In 2001, he contested the parliamentary seat of Sheema County North, in Sheema District, on the National Resistance Movement political party ticket.
Tumwesigye has been the elected Member of Parliament representing Sheema County North, in Sheema District, since 2001.