Dr. Peter Waiswa is Associate Professor

Leader of INDEPTH’s Maternal and Newborn Health Working Group, Dr. Peter Waiswa, has been promoted to Associate Professor of the Makerere University in Uganda. Additionally, he has 60 citations on PubMed.Peter is a Lecturer, Department of Health Policy,Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda & Global Health Division andKarolinskaInstitutet, Sweden.

The INDEPTH Network Executive Director, Prof. Osman Sankoh, congratulates Peter for the achievement and wishes him the very best in his academic career and research interests.

Peter shared the good news on his facebook wall:

“To my many teachers, financiers, work and research colleagues, collaborators, MoH and partners (KI and SNL especially), my family, and above all my parents, and God, I thank you. Today I got the long awaited email: "Promoted to Associate Professor" of Makerere University! Then I went my pubmed, and yes, I am at 60!! The no mean achievement is dedicated to my mum, daddy, wife, and kids. But the story shall be told another day: my rural classroom in my village still has dust on the floor in many "class rooms" - the rest of the story can make a movie: Where I have come from (or jenvudde". Anyway, will continue to serve my motherland: village, tribe, country and Africa.”