William Mutabaazi

I am a result-oriented and with strong desire for excellence to improve Health Systems. I hold over 15 years of direct involvement in health systems strengthening. I have actively
participated in building capacity of District and health facility leadership into district led programming, capacity building of human resources for health, health financing through sub-grants, medical commodities supply chain management and strengthening health information systems including data use for decision making. Having worked with people of diverse cultures country wide, am able to maintain excellent working relationships with various district teams and key stakeholders. I have supported increased availability of quality high impact facility and community-based health services. Actively supported review of data collected into DHIS2 to support and advise on resource allocation and capacity building through mentorship, didactic trainings to places of most need in the areas of HIV, TB, Malaria, Nutrition, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and child health services. With my Information Systems expertise, I have supported health teams collect,
stores, transmit and process reliable health data and that data is used for decision making. As core member of Health Systems Strengthening Directorate at Baylor-Uganda, actively participated in the Saving Mother Giving Life Project in the districts of Kamwenge, Kyenjojo, Kabarole that increased facility delivery rate to 62% and reduced perinatal mortality by 17%. Took leading role to provide Differentiated Service Delivery Model for HIV programing in the 8 districts of the
Rwenzori region, early adoption of this innovation made possible because of good mobilization skills and teamwork. I have worked with USAID-Regional Health Integration To Enhance Services (RHITES) in Northern Uganda Acholi as key member of Health Systems Strengthening unit, improving health systems in the 8 districts of Acholi strengthening leadership/governance, laboratory services, medical logistics, human resources for health and in data management to
support decision making.

In Acholi I innovated an automated the inventory management processes for directly managed commodities for VMMC, PrEP and STI treatments of KPs, Cervical cancer and GBV commodities. The automated inventory enabled traceability and ease of accounting for directly funded commodities.

With my direct support, the Acholi region was the pioneer USAID funded region that took on weekly tracker for ARVs, TB and HIV test kits (RASS) and was the first region in the country to have TB commodities reported into RASS. The RASS tool
has been very vital in tracking sites with stock gaps for immediate restocking either by redistribution or emergency ordering.

Steered team that that was able to achieve stock availability for ARVs from 40% (October 2018) to 100% by December 2021.

Actively participated in strengthening targeted HTS services to areas with likelihood of having most positive clients in the Acholi region, using DSD models as Assisted Partner Notification (APN), Targeted PITC that has enabled achieving
over 90% of HTS targets. Contributed to Acholi region success in keeping 93% of clients actively on Anti-retroviral treatment through District coordination strategies.

Steered project and district teams to achieve sustained 100% ordering reporting rate into the National Medical Stores online ordering platformed for the ordering cycles 1,2,3 of Financial Year 202 (in July, September, November 2022)

Exhibited highest level of team building that helped the Acholi region to be the first region in the country to have sustained completion rate for HMIS 105-6 (tracer commodities stock status report) of >95% for 3 consecutive months of August,
September, October 2022.

Region had sustained availability of ARVs, TB commodities, HIV test kits and reproductive health commodities due to multi-prolonged approaches of continuous capacity building, collaborative strategies with all key stakeholders, use of social media (WhatsApp) to improve coordination and instant 2way feedback, non-monetary rewards to best performance.

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