Samson Kironde

Dr. Samson Kironde is a holder of a Doctorate in Public Health and Epidemiology from Oxford University, United Kingdom and a Bachelor’s degree in Human Medicine from Makerere University, Uganda. He has more than 20 years’ experience in health programming including writing, setting up, managing and providing technical assistance to large public health programs in developing countries. He has worked on programs in HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria as well as reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH), nutrition, education, emerging epidemics control (COVID-19), as well as on community health systems and health systems strengthening. His major areas of expertise include strategic project planning; project management and implementation; knowledge management; technical writing; monitoring & evaluation; strategic information analysis; data visualization and use; documentation and dissemination of programmatic results; operational and implementation research; individual and organizational capacity building; technical assistance; as well as community and health systems strengthening. As a former Chief of Party of five large PEPFAR funded projects, Samson’s emphasis was to support public health sector cadres at all levels including national, subnational and health facility management staff to serve as change agents and focus on improved health outcomes especially for marginalized key and vulnerable populations including children, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), out-of-school youth, PLHIV, fisherfolk and LBGTQI+ through such mechanisms as person-centered and client-friendly services, increased efficiencies, performance and quality improvement and assurance, as well as the utilization of institutionalized evidence-based planning and decision-making. In his previous work experience, Samson has worked in challenges operating environments such as fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings and he has also been responsible for providing strategic direction and technical assistance to business development initiatives including technical and cost proposal writing, leading proposal teams, putting in place partnering mechanisms on bids and when the bids are successful, participating in the development of annual work plans and activity monitoring, evaluation and learning plans. Samson has also worked as an independent consultant for a number of organizations including Africa CDC, the Health Systems Trust of South Africa, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Uganda AIDS Commission, Universities as well as several international and national non-governmental organizations (INGOs and NNGOs). Samson has also been involved in the design and implementation of regular data quality audits and routine internal evaluations and performance reviews and led dissemination through technical report writing, oral and poster presentations at local and international fora and regular communication with key stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health, bilateral and multilateral development partners, civil society and beneficiaries. He was also part of the team that designed, conducted and disseminated 7 lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) surveys under the projects that he led. Samson is a keen researcher and has authored publications in several peer reviewed journals. He authored the chapter on Tuberculosis for the 2000 and 2002 editions of the South African Health Review and has been a personal recipient of grants from organizations such as the International Clinical Epidemiological Network, the former UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Sir Halley Stewart Trust for work in the field of Public Health. He has also been a reviewer for several international journals including Acta Academia, African Health Sciences, Health Policy, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Social Science and Medicine, Africa Health Promotion and the Research Council of Norway. He has also mentored doctoral (PhD) candidates. Samson is a team player with excellent analytical, time management, written and oral communication skills and he is proficient in all the major computer packages such as MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.), Epi info, SPSS, Power BI and the online communication platforms such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Webex and Zoom for virtual audio-visual communication.

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• National Secretary, Rhodes Scholarship for East Africa
• Former Member of the External Review Group for the WHO Guidelines on Health Policy and System Support for Community Health Workers
• Former member of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
• Former member of the World Bank Civil Society Consultative Group on Health, Nutrition and Population
• Former Africa Region co-Chair, Health Systems Action Network
• Member, International AIDS Society (IAS)
• Member, Uganda Medical Association
• Associate member, Uganda National Academy of Sciences
• Referee for several international medical and public health journals

• USAID Rules and Regulations, Inside NGO, 2010-01-01
• Basic Consulting Readiness, McKinsey & Company, 2002-01-01
• Executive MBA Program, McKinsey & Company, 2001-01-01
• Intensive Course in Epidemiology and Practical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1999-01-01

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, African Leadership Institute, 2011-01-01
• Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Foundation, 2007-01-01
• Fellowship, Sir Halley Stewart Trust, UK
• 1999-01-01
• 2002-01-01
• 2004-01-01
• Fellow, 21st Century Trust, 2001-01-01
• Research Grantee, UK Department for International Development, 1999-01-01
• Rhodes Scholar, Uganda, 1998-01-01
• Rahima Dawood Award, Associations of Surgeons of East Africa, 1996-01-01
• Commonwealth Medical Electives Award, Makerere School of Medicine
• 1991-01-01
• 1994-01-01

• Process and Lessons Learned from the Human Resources for Health Rapid Site-Level Assessment Exercise in Four Provinces of Zambia, 2016-11-01
• Process and Lessons Learned from the Human Resources for Health Rapid Site-Level Assessment Exercise in Three Districts in Malawi, 2016-06-01
• STAR-EC LQAS Survey Report 2014, 2014-09-01
• STAR-EC LQAS Survey Report 2013, 2013-09-01
• From data to action: Using Service Performance Assessment and Improvement (SPAI) processes to promote the utilization of HIV&AIDS data generated through Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) surveys: Experiences from East Central Uganda, 2013-03-19
• Population Estimates, HIV Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Study, Hotspot Mapping among Most-at-Risk Populations in the East Central Region of Uganda, 2012-01-01
• STAR-EC LQAS Survey Report 2012, 2012-09-01
• Moving from Tens to Thousands: How using multiple approaches in East Central Uganda is rapidly scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision in traditionally non-circumcising areas, 2012-07-22
• STAR-EC LQAS Survey Report 2011, 2011-08-01
• STAR-EC LQAS Survey Report 2010, 2010-08-01
• STAR-EC LQAS Survey Report 2009, 2009-08-01
• UPHOLD LQAS Survey Report 2007, 2007-01-01
• Promoting Unity of Purpose in District Health Service Delivery in Uganda through Partnerships, Trust Building and Evidence-based Decision-making, 2007-01-01
• UPHOLD CSO Follow-up Capacity Report, 2006-06-01
• UPHOLD CSO-CSO Partnerships: What makes them work?, 2006-08-01
• Indigenous non-governmental organization involvement in tuberculosis treatment programmes in high burden settings: experiences from South Africa, 2004-01-01
• Scaling the frontier – should Traditional Birth Attendants also be used to provide Nevirapine for PMTCT in Uganda?, 2003-01-01
• Lay workers in directly observed treatment (DOT) programmes for tuberculosis in high burden settings: Should they be paid?, 2002-01-01
• What motivates lay volunteers in high burden but resource limited tuberculosis programmes? Perceptions from the Northern Cape province, South Africa., 2002-01-01
• Tuberculosis treatment delivery in high burden settings: Does patient choice of supervision matter?, 2002-01-01
• Community participation in Primary Health Care (PHC) Programmes: Lessons from tuberculosis treatment delivery in South Africa., 2002-01-01
• The dearth of qualitative research in the IJTLD: Bias or low submission rate?, 2002-01-01
• Combating tuberculosis: Barriers to widespread non-governmental organization involvement in community-based tuberculosis treatment in South Africa., 2002-01-01
• Tuberculosis., 2002-01-01
• Tuberculosis., 2000-01-01

• Dr. James Guwani, Community Health Director, Africa CDC, +1 202 415 6800, GuwaniJ@africacdc.org
• Thaddee Niyoyitungira, Programme Lead, Community Health Systems, Africa CDC, +251 92 908 0753, NiyoyitungiraT@africacdc.org
• Richard Kintu, Director, Policy and Advocacy, Africa Frontline First, +256 776 669 017, rkintu@lastmilehealth.org
• Denis Businge, Former Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF South Sudan, +256 772 416 126, dcbusinge@yahoo.com

• Dr. James Guwani, Community Health Director, Africa CDC, +1 202 415 6800, GuwaniJ@africacdc.org
• Thaddee Niyoyitungira, Programme Lead, Community Health Systems, Africa CDC, +251 92 908 0753, NiyoyitungiraT@africacdc.org
• Richard Kintu, Director, Policy and Advocacy, Africa Frontline First, +256 776 669 017, rkintu@lastmilehealth.org
• Denis Businge, Former Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF South Sudan, +256 772 416 126, dcbusinge@yahoo.com