Dr Phyllis Awor is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences. She holds degrees MBChB from Makerere University; MSc. International Health from the University College London, University of Copenhagen, and University of Bergen; and a PhD from University of Bergen

Her research interests are: child health, infectious diseases (including malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea), public and private health systems and community based innovation. In 2017, she and a group of female scientists received the Gro Brundtland award for "innovation in public health and sustainable development." Together they wrote the paper titled Challenges and coping strategies faced by female scientists-A multicentric cross sectional study in 2020. It is on challenges and coping strategies faced by female scientists.