Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa

Contact details

Email: Hadijah dot Namyalo-Ganafa at warwick dot ac dot uk

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Current PhD Student

Biography

Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa is a Ugandan Lawyer and Academic. Prior to joining the Global Sustainable Development PhD program at Warwick, Hadijah was teaching Law at Makerere University School of Law in Kampala, Uganda. Hadijah attended Makerere University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree and attained a post graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from Law Development Centre in Kampala before earning a Master of Laws from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Hadijah has undertaken several consultancies in areas relating to Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS), access to justice for vulnerable groups such Women and Persons with Disabilities, human rights and migration, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and corruption.

Academic Background

PhD, Global Sustainable Development- University of Warwick, United Kingdom [2022-2026]
Master of Laws- Cornell University, United States of America [2006-2007]
Diploma in Legal Practice- Law Development Centre, Kampala, Uganda [2006]
Bachelor of Laws- Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda [2000-2004]

Certificates

Digital Arts and Humanities Certificate- University of Warwick, United Kingdom [2023]
Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) [2024]

Supervisors

Professor Sharifah Sekalala

Dr. Serena Natile

Research Overview

My project will use Uganda as a case study to explore the relationship between digital IDs and healthcare access in Uganda. It will examine the emergence of state-issued 'formal identification, its legal and policy framework and its impact on the provisioning of healthcare.

Research Interests

Law, Technology and Development

Global Health
Digital Rights, Health Equity, Human Rights,
Civil Registration & Vital Statistics
Corruption
Access to Justice

Publications and Conference Papers

Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, In the Seminar Space: Navigating Graduate Teaching in Undergraduate Legal Education, JPPP 5(1), 28-38, 2025.
Robert M Muwanguzi and Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, Reaping “Bumper Harvests” During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Interrogating The Dynamics Of Corruption During The Procurement Of Relief And Healthcare Items In Uganda, Pp. 49-79, Volume 6 of the Journal of Anti-Corruption Law, 2022
Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa and Grancia Mugalula, Posthumous Patriarchy under Attack? Tracing the Widow’s Right to the Matrimonial Home in Uganda (Volume 27, N0. 3 East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, 2022)
Sekalala S, Forman L, Hodgson T, Mulumba M, Namyalo-Ganafa H and Meier B, Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine. BMJ Global Health 2021;0: e006169. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006169
Hadijah Namyalo, Disability Rights, Criminal Trials and Strategies to Promote Access to Justice in Uganda (vol. 25, No.1, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, June 2019)
Hadijah Namyalo, An Illusionary Shield? Gendered Governance and the Role of Customary Law in Protecting the Rights of Widows in Uganda. [Working Paper No.27, March, 2010].

Blog Posts

Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, Digital Health Governance in East Africa: The actors and Peddlars (2025) SLSA Blog
Sharifah Sekalala, Kevin Hearty and Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, UK Cost of Living Crisis and Food Banks: A Right to Health Critique, Health and Human Rights Journal (July 17, 2023), https://www.hhrjournal.org/2023/07/uk-cost-of-living-crisis-and-food-banks-a-right-to-health-critique/
Zahara Nampewo, Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, Edgar Emmanuel Mugarura, and Lavender M. Mboya (2022), The pursuit of a livelihood: women migrant workers and gendered experiences of migration from Uganda to the gulf countries, SOAS Blog

Teaching

2023-to December 2025- Snr Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Warwick Law School

2008-2022- Assistant Lecturer, School of Law, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda.

Funding and Awards

2022-2026- Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship
2023-2024- University of Warwick and University of Toronto Global Health and Human Rights Training Fellowship
2006-2007- Cornell University Institute of African Development Fellowship
2006-2007- Cornell University Graduate Legal Studies Program Scholarship
2006- Austrian Scholarship Program awardee

Other Roles

2023-2024- University of Warwick Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Graduate Seminar Series Organising Committee