Our Board

Board Chairperson

Prof. Peter K Waiswa

Prof. Peter Kyobe Waiswa is a Ugandan researcher, medical doctor, and academic administrator. He is a health systems researcher with a particular focus on maternal-newborn-child health services. He leads the In-depth network on Maternal-Newborn health and is a regular advisor to International Organizations on perinatal health.

Prof. Waiswa is also the team lead at the Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Newborn and Child Health. He holds a joint PhD degree from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and Makerere University, Uganda. He Chairs the Board of Directors at Busoga Health Forum.

Vice Board Chairperson

Dr. Sheba N. Giita

Dr. Sheba is the Deputy Executive Director and Head of Science & Public Affairs at Africa Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET).

Sheba is a Global Health professional and Public health leader with fifteen years of work experience in multi-sectoral program management including health systems strengthening, child protection, workforce development, multi-disciplinary research implementation as well as networking and partnership building.

Board Secretary

Ms. Primah Kwagala

Primah Kwagala is a human rights lawyer. She served as the Chairperson of Female Lawyers in the Uganda Law Society 2019/20 and is also the Founding and Serving Executive Director of the Women’s Probono Initiative (WPI) – an organisation whose vision is a Uganda free of violence and discrimination against women and girls.

WPI works to achieve their vision through legal representation of vulnerable women and girls suffering discrimination, legal empowerment, research and knowledge sharing.

In June 2022, she was awarded the EU Human Rights Defenders Award and in January, 2020, Primah was named ‘Peace and Reconciliation Laureatte’ by the French and German Embassies to Uganda in honour of her work defending women against violence and discrimination in Uganda.

Treasurer

Dr. James Batuuka

Dr. James Batuuka is a Pharmacist and a health economist consultant. He is the Treasurer of the Busoga Health Forum Board

Member

Dr Paul Waibale

Dr Paul Waibale is a renowned Physician and Epidemiologist with 25 years of experience working with governments and non-governmental organizations at regional, national, and subnational levels in Southern Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. He has directed programs focusing on the strategic transformation of health systems for integrated control of MNCH and HIV and AIDS, and spearheaded high-level policy dialogue for sustainable health programming.

Dr Waibale holds a Master of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Makerere University.

Member

Owek. Dr. Balyeku Andrew

Owek. Dr. Balyeku Andrew is a senior Public Health Consultant and Minister of Health for the Busoga Kingdom. He is a member of the Strategic Technical working group and together with his team, they support Busoga Health Forum to achieve its goals with their expertise on particular topics.

Member

Dr. Fred Bisso

Dr. Bisso Fred is the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Specialist at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. He is also the the team leader of the E.N.T Pro bono Clinic at Busoga Health Forum.

Dr. Biiso is a former president of Uganda Medical Association.

MEMBER

Richard Kajura

Dr. Richard Kajura is a Public Health Nutritionist, researcher, and lecturer at Makerere University. He has worked as a Grants Program Manager and coordinated the planning, designing, Management, and Implementation of IMC-Uganda Health/ HIV/AIDS and Nutrition Programs.

Patron

Prof. Juma Waswa Balunywa

Prof. Juma Waswa Balunywa is a scholar in management, leadership, and entrepreneurship. He is also an academic administrator, who serves as the Principal of Makerere University Business School, a public institution of higher education in Uganda.

Prof. Balunywa served on the Board of Directors of the Bank of Uganda which is the country’s central bank and national banking regulator from 2001-2012. He has been credited with having revolutionized business education and spearheading the Private students’ scheme in Uganda that has become a model for many universities across the country and the region.

Senior Advisor

H.E. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe

H.E. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe is a Ugandan politician and the first female Vice President in Africa. She was Vice President of Uganda from 1994 to 2003, making her the first woman in Africa to hold the position of vice president of a sovereign nation.

Dr Specioza Kazibwe is also a surgeon with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, and Master of Medicine from Makerere University Medical School, specializing in General Surgery and an Honorary degree of Doctor of Science (SD), awarded by Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Population and International Health.

Currently, she is the Senior Presidential Advisor for Population and Health at the Ministry of Health.