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Role

I teach the Public Health MA Postgraduate Course and a range of modules. I am a module lead for policy and practice in multidisciplinary public health, research methods, public health sustainability and communities, dissertation and research projects.

I occasionally teach the Global Health and Research modules on the MSC nursing course focusing on how policies impact service outcomes and policy research in nursing.

In addition to teaching postgraduate programmes in public health and nursing, I am a researcher in public health policy interested in Health Systems and health policy analysis. My other roles currently include;

• Doctoral supervision in health policy and systems management
• Member of the School of Social Sciences Research and Ethics Committee
• Sitting Chairperson of the Institute of Health and Allied Professions Professional Development Café
• Member of the School of Social Sciences Board of Examiners

Career overview

I am a practitioner of applied public health policy analysis with duo experience in academia and civil society movements. I advance the deconstruction and application of the theories of the policy process and complexity in teaching, research, and evidence-informed policy advocacy. From 2005 to 2015 I worked with civil society movements rising from a community worker to the national level as a Deputy Executive Director. From 2016 to date, my career took an academic turn.

I started my professional career as a community worker with children in 2005 in Uganda. I worked with communities to set up community-based initiatives to promote early childhood development and education for children from vulnerable households. Later on, from 2006 to 2007, I worked with children infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. I was involved in developing, implementing and evaluating targeted community and household health and livelihood interventions to meet a range of needs for HIV positive children. I engaged in grassroots advocacy against stigma and discrimination. From 2008 on, I played significant roles at national level where working with the Red Cross I spearheaded the planning and mobilisation of resources to respond to national health emergencies and disasters. Between 2011 and 2015, I focused on national policy advocacy on maternal and child health pushing for policy reforms to reduce preventable maternal and child mortality which had persistently remained high for more than three decades. Simultaneously, I participated in the tobacco control legislative advocacy which culminated in the enactment of the Tobacco Control Act of 2015. I designed and rolled out national advocacy campaigns targeting policy elites such as members of the cabinet, parliament, civil society groups and global actors like the Inter-Parliamentary Union. I played several key roles including, drawing campaign strategies, high-level strategic engagements, conducting policy analyses to support advocacy, resource mobilisation, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation.

My involvement with Ugandan policy elites and their perspectives during national policy processes informed my transition into academia in 2016 and my focus on elite policy processes and how they shape policy performance. I started as a Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at Makerere University in Uganda and went on to acquire a PhD in Public Health Policy 2022. I was subsequently appointed as a lecturer in public health at NTU. My teaching and research focuses on examining the policy processes taking a long horizon to understand critical events in the policy lifecycle that shape performance.

Education Summary

I hold a PhD in public health policy, a Master of Arts in Social Sector Planning and Management and a BA in Social Sciences all from Makerere University in Uganda. I obtained a diploma in project planning and entrepreneurship development and attended fellowships in monitoring and evaluation of health programmes and, health policy analysis.

External activity

I am on the editorial boards of PlosOne and the Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Journal of Public Administration. I am a reviewer of several health policy and systems research journals.

I am a member of the Health Policy Analysis (HPA) fellows network supported by the World Health Organisation through the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. We are a group of early-career HPA scholars from LMICs working collaboratively to strengthen capacity for HPA and the development of context-fit HPA theories in LMIC settings. We mentors HPA professionals in HPA methods and steer global discourse on epistemic justice on HPA theories and methods.

I am a civil society movement mentor under the Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It is a collaborative programme supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Global Financing Facility (GFF), Gavi (Vaccine Alliance), UHC2030, and Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) providing training and mentorship of local CSO partners in 20 African Countries to provide training and support on budget advocacy and accountability for UHC.