Herman Lule is a specialist Licensed General Surgeon in Uganda and Botswana, and a Doctoral Researcher in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital in Finland. He also holds postgraduate certification in Global Health and Infectious Diseases from the University of Edinburgh (UK).

Herman is an affiliate of the Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Research Group and Turku Brain Injury Center of the University of Turku (Finland), and an International Member of: Australian Injury Prevention Network (Australia), Australian College of Road Safety (Australia), Association of Academic Surgery (USA), Public Health Association of (Australia), and Association of Surgeons of (Uganda).

His research interests lies with in the global health domain of addressing health and surgical care inequities amongst the most vulnerable populations with a global focus.

He has served as Research Coordinator-Directorate of Research & Innovations of Kampala International University (Uganda) and as Surgery Lecturer at the Kampala International University Teaching Hospital (Uganda). He was the Surgery Chair and Site programme Coordinator at Kiryandongo Government Reference Hospital in Uganda and Visiting Lecturer of Electronic Health Records and m-Health/e-Health within the Public Health Programme at the Information Communication Technology (ICT) University in USA. 

Herman has a strong background in trauma surgery and is passionate about strengthening trauma care and disease surveillance systems in low-middle income countries and is currently developing a rural trauma team registry for motorcycle injuries in Uganda for a doctoral thesis. He was a National Lead Coordinator for the global surgery UK-NIHR funded CovidSurg-week and CovidCancer global projects that evaluated the quality of surgical and cancer care worldwide in Covid-19 settings in collaboration with the University of Birmingham (UK).

He is an invited speaker at the forthcoming WHO Safety 2024 15th World Conference Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention in New Delhi, India. He attended a master class on rural trauma team development training of American College of Surgeons in Chicago (USA). He was a pannel discussant of Research with Impact Regarding Africa during the 2023 Africa Research at Finnish Universities in Finland; and a presenting author at the: 2022-17th Annual Academic Surgical Congress of Association of Academic Surgery and Society for University Sugeons, Olando, Florida, USA; 27th edition of the digital international student’s congress of (bio) medical sciences in Groningen-Netherlands;  Australian Safety 2020-14th world conference on safety promotion and injury prevention. Herman is open to meaningful collaboration to address global health challenges.