Samuel Waliggo Ssegawa

World TB Day at MOD Public Health Foundation, Masaka City, Uganda. March 24, 2023 # YES! WeCanEndTBby2030 #WeCanEndTB Today is World TB Day. The theme for this year's World TB Day is   “ Yes! We Can End TB.”   This theme brings attention to tuberculosis (TB) and that it is in our collective power to end TB by 2030 and therefore reach the SDG goals.  In view of that, our people-centered health promotion work as MOD brings hope and continues to build on the amazing work done in Uganda as one of the TB High Burden Countries to recover from the impact of the COVID epidemic. We continue to support through advocacy the access to new diagnostics, new treatment regimens, digital technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) for the TB response. The YES! We Can End TB, also centers on the increased engagement of those affected by TB, communities, and civil society who are leading the movement toward ending this disease. This year is going to be critical for all of us enga...

Samuel is the Executive Director who started off as a Nursing Care Provider and later upgraded into a Public health specialist. With 18 years of clinical logic and population level epidemiologic skill set, Sam co- founded the Men of Destiny (MOD) Public Health Consultants and MOD Public Health Foundation, two NGOs that translate Public Health principles into public health development and the graduate institution that progressively generates efficacious knowledge tools and supports continued formation of change-agents.  With an incisive social and emotional intelligence, Samuel supported and advocated for the inclusion of nurses and grassroots-based communities in Task shifting approaches leveraging an increase in the critical numbers of active performers in the HIV, TB and Malaria eradication efforts in Uganda. Samuel has worked with historical grassroots and last mile reaching organizations such as Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation, The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO), and Rakai He...