The Challenges and Triumphs Over the Years at The MOD Public Health Foundation, Uganda: Part III Interview with Samuel Waliggo, MPH, Founder and Executive Director of the MOD Public Health Foundation Uganda
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...