Agnes serves as the Head of the Data Science Program at the African Population Health Research Council, located in Nairobi, Kenya. She holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Makerere University in Uganda and Indiana University in the United States, and she has completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. With over two decades of experience in utilizing and re-utilizing large, diverse, and both non-conventional and conventional datasets, she has a particular focus on longitudinal population cohorts throughout Africa.

Dr. Kiragga leads the INSPIRE network, which is a consortium comprising more than twenty Demographic Health Surveillance Sites across eight African nations. Additionally, she oversees the data and methodology work stream during the formative phase of a newly established Africa Population Cohort Consortium, which aims to leverage data science tools for analyzing longitudinal data generated in Africa and enhancing pandemic preparedness within the region.Through INSPIRE, she has interfaced with challenges of population linkage in various African settings where the use of unique or biometric identifiers remains low.

She leads several other continent-wide programs such as the Data Science Without Borders Project implemented in Cameroon, Ethiopia and Senegal, and aims to strengthen data systems for evidence generation in Africa. As a strong proponent of capacity building in data sharing, harmonization, and standardization in Africa, Dr. Kiragga advocates for the application of artificial intelligence to develop data-driven insights that facilitate effective decision-making in public health and livelihoods across the continent.