Resume: Samuel Waliggo Ssegawa (MPH)

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 Health Sciences Program (RHSP) thus grounding in the provision of Integrated HIV prevention, Care, and Treatment Services to over 25,000 People Living HIV (PLHIV). 

Samuel’s previous employers have acclaimed him for innovations (projects, systems, and processes); a penchant for delivering results on budget, time, quality and building high impact teams. Samuel has trained several communities including health facility workers and Village Health Teams (VHTs) from hard-to-reach rural areas forming Communities of Practice (COP); mainstreaming HIV/TB/Malaria eradication mechanisms for UNAIDS 2030 goals and integrating Pandemic response, recovery, and resilience plans; and Climate Change Countermeasures. Samuel has translated the mission and spirit of PEPFAR/CDC-DREAMS programs targeting adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) into opportunities to assess and report Early Warning Indicators for HIV Drug Resistance; enshrined Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and catalyzed the roll out of VMMC interventions in over 32 districts of Uganda. At MOD Public Health Foundation, Samuel has supported the design and implementation of models and projects that turn the passion and professionalism into quality productivity of staff leading to better life outcomes among vulnerable populations.  Samuel has used his background in Systems and Design thinking to contribute to community resilience linked to the benefits of Community Systems Strengthening (CSS); Resilient and Sustainable Systems of Health (RSSH); Public-Private Mix (PPM); and engaged in strengthening the capacity of local and rural-based CBOs in Uganda to own knowledge and skills to keep the traction toward the SDGs. Samuel is a marriage counsellor and has provided pre- and post-marital counselling services to over 1,000 couples in the Greater Masaka Region; reaches out to communities through Population-Based Community Structures (PBCS) such as Local Governments, religious leaders, Teachers’ Association, youth groups, culture and political leaders and healthcare structures/institutions (Health Workers, DHO/DHMT) to support and promote access to Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH). 

He catalyses outcomes like demand creation for care services; engagement in health seeking practices; mobilised communities engaged in timely uptake of services; demand and utilisation of Health and Development information, education, and communication; efficacious systems; Strategic planning; contributing to self and the development of communities; self-evaluation and other life promoting competencies.  

Samuel Waliggo Ssegawa Attending an International AIDS Conference in Melbourne Australia, 2014