Rate My Professor Moses Isiagi

Moses Isiagi serves as a senior lecturer in the Division of Global Surgery within the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences. He is an interdisciplinary scientist and biokineticist whose academic journey includes undergraduate studies in Sports Science at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He subsequently earned a BSc (Honours) in Medicine and an MSc in Medicine with distinction from the University of Cape Town in the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine. In 2025, he completed his PhD in Medicine at the University of Cape Town. In his current role, Isiagi acts as projects manager, research advocacy and implementation lead, undergraduate convenor, electives convenor, international fellowships convenor, and masters course convenor in the Division of Global Surgery. His responsibilities encompass teaching, program coordination, and advancing research initiatives focused on improving surgical care and health outcomes in resource-limited settings.

Isiagi's research specializations center on global surgery, with a strong emphasis on geospatial determinants of health in low-resourced communities. He employs tools such as GIS, accelerometry, and GPS to examine location-specific factors influencing health. Additional areas of focus include pulmonary rehabilitation across Africa, particularly for COPD in low-resourced settings, and efforts to generate, translate, and scale evidence aimed at reducing environmental, health, and social disparities related to chronic and acute non-communicable diseases. He has contributed to publications addressing topics including qualitative evaluations of global surgery courses within the University of Cape Town's Master of Public Health curriculum and geospatial determinants of health from a global surgery perspective. Isiagi has also participated in initiatives such as citizen science and community engagement projects viewed through a global surgery lens.