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 1 Interview with Samuel Waliggo, MPH, Founder and Executive Director of the MOD Public Health Foundation, Uganda Samuel Waliggo believes in  working as a team to showcase that Communities of Practice (COP), Public-Private Mix (PPM), Resilient and Sustainable Systems of Health and Development (RSSHD), Social Protection (SP), Community Led Monitoring (CLM) and Community  Systems Strengthening (CSS) are applicable, workable and adaptable in Uganda. Interviewer: You are a Public Health Foundation in Uganda, tell me What have been some of the healing stories you can share with me? This interview will be done in three parts. So, please brace yourself.  Samuel Waliggo: Waooo! Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you again. There are several healing stories. I like the term you are using. “Healing Stories.” Interviewer: Sure, there is another term, and it is “Stories rooted in resilience!” Samuel Waliggo: Now, that is relatable and putting it so well. I am glad we can sh...