Samuel Waliggo Ssegawa

  Peripheral based organisations contribute to establishing differentiated service delivery models. They bring to peripheral communities, novel approaches such as antimicrobial stewardship; embed the One Health approach at community level where animal-human interactions are a daily experience to foster better health outcomes; and other interventions that improve the Quality of Life (QoL) of people. This sets in place the cultures necessary for people-centered services whose elements include affinity, access, appropriateness, affordability, acceptability and demand for those services which improve longevity and quality of life of the people, health of the planet and increase productivity in such communities. Good health and wellbeing are aspirations through which it is possible to mobilise communities so that people effectively engage in practices that prevent diseases, prolong life and promote health. Through health promotion and education in the communities peripheral-based servic...

    Figure 1:  Staff of MOD Public Health Foundation during the debriefing meeting to Engage  Local Communities In The Immediate Vicinity called Kimaanya A, Masaka City.  Building a critical mass of participants engaged in positive seeking practices contributes to better Health Outcomes in various communities. any Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Government Organisations, Research Institutions, and Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) including MOD Public Health Foundation Uganda, have a tendency to target communities far out and miss those in their immediate vicinity. This has repercussions that in turn affect the affinity of people in the immediate vicinity toward the Organisations. This realization occurred to the MOD Public Health Foundation when two or three participants in an outreach activity we conducted remarked in unison: "We always see you going to conduct health education activities elsewhere but wondered when we would be targeted too." This w...

Figure 1: MOD Public Health Foundation-Uganda Launching the “My Safety, My Health! Health is My Choice!”  Strategy of a VMMC Campaign in Kimaanya-Kabonera, Masaka City, 05th May 2023. Theme: Focused Demand Creation for Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) Services Among Males and Young Men Aged 15 Years and Above in Kimanya-Kabonera Sub-County of Greater Masaka Region Venues: Gaz Boda-Boda Stage, Kobil Stage, Yellow Knife Stage, Senna Petro Station Stage, and Kingo Stage. Date: 05th May 2023 The key Objectives: 1.      Strategic Involvement of Boda-Boda riders in influencing peers to participate in health Seeking practices that reduce risks/vulnerability to HIV infection. 2.      Strengthening the catalytic role of Boda-Boda Rider to promote behaviour change fostering staying negative attitudes. The Participants or stakeholder makeup Boda-Boda riders, Boda-Boda Chairpersons, Carpenters, Taxi touts, Road Construction workers, Motorcycle ...

Part III Interview with Samuel Waliggo, MPH, Founder and Executive Director of the MOD Public Health Foundation Uganda. Interviewer: As we wind down, you brought up matters of most importance and in the Public and Global Health realm we continue to realize them as the three of the topmost of the other intersectional forces affecting life outcomes. Climate change, working in silos, and our insistence on prescribing single-issue interventions. Samuel Waliggo: Right! How I wish that budgets would allow us to tackle, for instance, malaria while at the same time, we engage in climate-change countermeasures and at the same time empowering communities to build pandemic or crisis-resilient systems and structures. A climate crisis is a health crisis, yet the opportunity to influence and effect climate-change countermeasures has not been fully realized or popularised. An organisation trying to mobilize people to plant say, two million (2,000,000) million trees may be perceived by many as...

Part II Interview with Samuel Waliggo, MPH, Founder and Executive Director of the MOD Public Health Foundation Uganda Interviewer: Our decisions or indecisions have a health impact. The things we decide about or do not affect us within an ecosystem of things. We thrive, survive and strive within ecosystems variously as you stated earlier. Help our readers connect one health, global and public health. Samuel Waliggo: We are connected by many aspects on this planet which in turn is connected to other bodies in the universe. The earth is made up of land mass, air, temperature, water bodies, animals, plants, and other things that may be seen or so minuscule that they are not visible to the eye but exist physically or non-physically. These can be life-supporting or not. For instance, the diseases that affect animals affect us. These diseases may pass to humans zoonotically. Or the effect may be seen if we rely on animals for food or their products to make money. Humans, animals, and plants ...

MOD Steering Committee and Board of Trustees Participating in a CSO Movement Building Meeting on 16th June 2023. Venue:  MOD/Public Health Foundation/Public Health Consultants, Uganda Date:  16/06/2023 Purpose:  To rebrand as a Social-Economic Transformation and Environment Conservation Network (SETECON) of the South-Central Region (Greater Masaka Region). Specific Objectives 1)      Train members of the Board of Trustees in Organisation Development and Strengthening Skills to enable them to translate the SDG into lived experiences; and to conduct effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning as well as generation of reports. 2)      Revitalize staff morale, and empower them to engage in visioning, implementation, self-propulsion, and accountability sessions to ensure better performance. 3)      Introduce the elements of “Public Health,” Emancipatory Public Health,” and “Adaptive Public Health framework,” and il...