MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH P.O. BOX 7072, KAMPALA, Uganda Tel: 0414 533 958/0392 764 328 Email: [email protected] Fax: 0414 533 957 Website: http://www.musphcdc.ac.ug MakSPH - CDC FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM LONG-TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK LONG TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK i ii LONG TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK LONG TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword .......................................................................................................................... 2 Word from the Principal Investigator ................................................................................ 3 Fellowship Program Brief ................................................................................................. 4 FELLOWS: MAY 2011 – FEBRUARY 2013 ....................................................................... 6 Maureen Kwikiriza ............................................................................................... 6 Gertrude Kalema Namazzi ................................................................................ 10 Sarah Nakku ...................................................................................................... 15 Abel Bizimana .................................................................................................... 19 Faridah Luyiga Mwanje .................................................................................... 23 Peter Mukobi ..................................................................................................... 28 Susan Babirye ................................................................................................... 32 Patrick Komakech.............................................................................................. 37 Matthew Lukwiya Award ................................................................................................. 41 Alumni career updates ................................................................................................... 43 Program staff contacts ................................................................................................... 46 LONG TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK 1 FOREWORD FOREWORD Like in the previous years, many of the Fellows graduating today have been involved in program leadership and management at various levels within the institutions of placement, including institutionalizing open medical records system (open MRS) within the Uganda Police Force Medical Services, operations research to inform programs, improving health services delivery at district level through continuous quality improvement, and improving uptake of HIV and family planning services, among other initiatives. I am pleased to note that the Fellowship Program has received funding from CDC, for the next five years, and this in itself is vote of confidence from the funders that we should be proud about. This funding will continue to support existing Fellowships as well as targeted graduate training. In this new phase we are exploring adjustments that will ensure relevance and continued contribution to the strengthening of leadership of health programs in Uganda, including stronger partnerships with the Public he past ten years (2002-2012) have been a Sector and new host institutions that accommodate period of growth, learning and expansion of the the expanding scope of training. On this note, let me Fellowship Program. The program has expanded thank our development partners, CDC in particular for Tnot only in terms of numbers trained but also in sustaining the effort; the Fellows who have made us terms of the focus areas, from being a disease-specific shine, the host institutions that we have worked with over program to encompass other health programs areas the years, well wishers and finally the MakSPH staff for including maternal and child health, health informatics, the work well done. malaria and tuberculosis, among others. Since inception, we have enrolled 85 Fellows, 81 of whom completed the Fellowship (including those graduating today), while 13 new Fellows were enrolled on the program in February 2013. Of those who completed, over 90% have taken on high-level leadership and management positions at national and international levels. This indicates a high degree of success in our primary objective of enhancing leadership and management capacity for health Assoc. Prof. William Bazeyo programs. Dean, Makerere University School of Public Health 2 LONG TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK LONG TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK 3 WORD FROM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR he year 2013 is special to the Fellowship program in many respects. This is the first year on our new grant for the third phase (2012-2017) but also, this Tyear comes pretty close to the end of the second five-year phase, which ended in September 2012. Indeed, the graduating Fellows were in the last cohort under the second phase of the program, and I am happy to inform you that Fellows for the first year of our third phase have been identified and are currently undergoing training at the School of Public Health. The graduating Fellows were hosted in eight institutions namely: UNAIDS, Mildmay Uganda, Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU), UNFPA, Maternal and Newborn Study (MANEST), PREFA, Uganda AIDS Commission, and Family Health International 360 (FHI360). We would like to express our sincere gratitude to these host institutions for offering an opportunity to Fellows to learn how to manage and lead health programs from a practical point of view. We value the role of stakeholder involvement in the training of transformative leaders in Uganda, and therefore pledge to continue to work with different institutions to fulfil our mandate of training and nurturing future leader-managers Last but not least, we are grateful to the Dean, Makerere of health programs in Uganda. University School of Public Health, for his support to the program, and the CDC Project Officer (Dr Sam Malamba) We would like to thank the academic mentors for their and Activity Manager (Dr Anthony Mubiru) for guiding strong commitment and dedication towards the Fellowship program staff in not only doing the right things but also Program goals and objectives. Special regards go to: Dr doing them right. Elizabeth Nabiwemba, Dr Lynn Atuyambe, Dr Noerine Kaleeba, Dr Olico Okui, Dr Euzobia Mugisha, Dr Suzanne Kiwanuka, Dr Achilles Katamba, Dr Florence Baingana, and Dr Geoffrey Kabagambe for their time in inspiring and supporting Fellows. We would also like to thank Fellows for their dedication and commitment to program Prof David Serwadda and host institution goals. We are highly indebted to CDC Principal Investigator, for the technical and financial support rendered to the MakSPH-CDC Fellowship Program program and to the program staff for their dedication and enthusiasm to make this program a success. LONG TERM FELLOWS 2011-2013 YEAR BOOK 3 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM BRIEF akerere University support supervision). For each School of Public Health domain, a set of core competencies (MakSPH) with support Thirteen Fellows are has been specified. Core from Centers for competencies refer to the skills, M currently enrolled. Disease Control (CDC) implements a attitudes and practices that Fellows Fellowship training program known as should acquire during the course MakSPH-CDC Fellowship Program. Graduate Fellows of the Fellowship. Overall, 13 core The objective of this program is to have set up and/ competencies were identified for the enhance program leadership and six domains. Long-term Fellows are management capacity in Uganda. or strengthened attached to selected institutions for The areas of focus include HIV/ apprenticeship. The apprenticeship AIDS, maternal and child health, monitoring accounts for 75% of the training. The malaria, tuberculosis; public health remaining 25% is reserved for Fellows informatics, and other health-related and evaluation to attend multi-disciplinary short programs. The program, which systems at their courses at MakSPH to enhance their began in 2002, provides long-term academic competences. During the and medium-term Fellowships, and host institutions, apprenticeship, Fellows are placed short courses. under the guidance of a designated improved data host mentor. An academic mentor, Long-term Fellowships: The who is usually a member of staff long-term Fellowship is a 2-year, management from Makerere University College of non-degree fulltime program offered Health Sciences, is assigned to guide on a competitive basis to Ugandan systems, the Fellow through the academic nationals with a Master’s degree in contributed components of the Fellowship. Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Monitoring and Evaluation, Maternal to fundraising Eighty five (85) Fellows have been and Child Health and other health- enrolled into the program since related disciplines. The Fellowship and resource inception in 2002. Of these, 81 aims at training transformative Fellows completed the Fellowship leaders in health who are analytical mobilization, and successfully. Thirteen Fellows are in thinking and can work effectively in initiated pilot health currently enrolled. Graduate Fellows multidisciplinary teams. The training have set up and/or strengthened methodology takes on a hands-on interventions that monitoring and evaluation systems at approach that is guided by a set their host institutions, improved data of six main domains