Dr Luyirika is Executive Director of the African Palliative Care Association a pan-African palliative care organization with programmes in over 24 African countries. He is a board member of the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, President of the Executive Board of CoRSU Hospital in Uganda a charitable rehabilitation and plastic surgery service for children and adults with disability. Previously, he was country director of Mildmay International, worked for the Department of Health in South Africa and lectured in Family Medicine at the Medical University of Southern Africa. He studied at Makerere University as a medical undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Medical University of Southern Africa and University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.