Betty Asiimwe Mpeka Tusubira, (1 January 1954 – 6 June 2021; née Betty Asiimwe Mpeka), but commonly known as Betty Mpeka, was a Ugandan physician and public health specialist, who at the time of her death, was the Deputy Chief of Party of Uganda Indoor Residual Spraying Project Phase II, at the Uganda Ministry of Health, based in Kampala, the capital of that East African country.
One of her classmates in medical school, was Professor James Gita Hakim (14 May 1954 – 25 January 2021), who also died from COVID-19, in Harare, Zimbabwe.
[2] Later, she graduated from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, with a degree of Master of Science in public health.
The program was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
From 2012 until her death, she served as the Deputy Chief of the Uganda Indoor Residual Spraying Project Phase II.