Dr. Freddie Ssengooba is a Professor of Health Economics and Health Systems Management with over 20 years of teaching and research in health policy and systems. He is the Director of the SPEED Project and the Center for Health Policy and Systems Development (CHPSD) at Makerere University School of Public Health.”
Dr. Ssengooba has background training as a medical doctor and has worked in a clinical setting, as a hospital director, and as a district health officer in Uganda’s health system. He has a doctorate covering the intersection of public health policy and institutional economics from the University of London. In the past 17 years, Dr. Ssengooba’s teaching and research scholarship has focused on health policies, program design and implementation, and health system developments.
Dr. Ssengooba has led a multi-disciplinary team undertaking health systems assessment for Uganda, a national maternal health review, and a consultative study to operationalize national plans such as safe male circumcision for HIV prevention, reproductive health, and health workforce and financing reforms. Dr. Ssengooba is well embedded in the national and regional health and development discourses, think-tank task forces, and advisory boards for health agencies like the National Planning Authority, WHO-Afro, Wellcome Trust, KEMRI, and Health Systems Global.
He is well-versed in quantitative and qualitative research methods, drawing on multiple lenses and disciplines such as human medicine, public health, health economics, political economy, and systems thinking. As a director of SPEED Project – a program of applied policy analyses to support universal coverage in Uganda, Dr Ssengooba leads a partnership of agencies to respond to policy problems and demand for advice from the government of Uganda. From these enterprises, Dr. Ssengooba has published books, journal articles, working papers, and op-eds.
He has supervised to completion nine doctoral fellows and over 30 master’s students in his field of expertise. He has provided technical and consultancy services to WHO, DFID, USAID, the World Bank, the Ministries of Health, the Uganda AIDS Commission, and multilateral and bilateral agencies and foundations.Â
Email: sengooba@musph.ac.ug
