Samuel Waliggo Ssegawa

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 ...