Peter Waiswa
Introduction
Peter Waiswa is a medical doctor and a graduate of the special joint PhD program between Karolinska Institutet and Makerere University in Uganda. Peter is now a Post Doc at IHCAR as well as a lecturer at the Department of Health Policy Planning and Management of Makerere University School of Public Health in Uganda (www.musph.ac.ug). Peter defended his PhD in May 2010, based on an issue for most low income countries: Understanding Newborn Care in Uganda -Towards Future Interventions.
Peter has worked as a district medical officer for eight years under the Ministry of Health in Uganda, he has extensive experience in health systems and health service management, and is also actively involved in community work in Uganda through supporting local CBOs.
Ongoing projects
- Core team member in the "Iganga/Mayuge Health and Demographic Survey" in eastern Uganda - a joint project of Makerere University and Karolinska Institutet
- Principal investigator in the "Uganda Newborn Study - UNEST", a cluster randomised study in the Iganga/Mayuge Health Demographic Surveillance Site-(HDSS) in-Iganga and Mayuge Districts. The aim is-to develop and cost an integrated maternal-newborn care
- Principal investigator in EQUIP - "Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power for Maternal and Newborn Health" in Uganda. The project is also taking place in Tanzania
- Involved in MANEST "Maternal and Newborn Study in Uganda"
- Developing and testing a standard INDEPTH Tool for Social Autopsy
Selected publications
Community perceptions and care of preterm babies in Eastern Uganda
Trop Med Int Health. 2010 Oct;15(10):1140-7
Using the three delays model to understand why newborn babies die in eastern Uganda
Trop Med Int Health. 2010 Aug;15(8):964-72
Community acceptability of use of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria by community health workers in Uganda
Malar J. 2010 Jul 13;9:203
Poor newborn care practices a population based study in eastern Uganda
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2010, 10:9
Perinatal mortality audit: counting, accountability, and overcoming challenges in scaling up in low- and middle-income countries
Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2009 Oct;107 Suppl 1:S113-21, S121-2
Low uptake of HIV testing during antenatal care: a population-based study from eastern Uganda
AIDS. 2009 Sep 10;23(14):1924-6
Acceptability of evidence-based neonatal care practices in rural Uganda -implications for programming
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2008 Jun 21;8:21
Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study
Bull World Health Organ. 2008;86(5): p. 332-8
