ALERT – Action Leveraging Evidence to reduce perinatal Mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Phillip Wanduru is a PhD candidate at Karolinska Institutet in the Department of Global health and Makerere University School of Public Health. He holds a Master of Public Health and Bachelors in Nursing. Phillip has extensive experience in health systems management. His research interests are in maternal, newborn, and child health care particularly focusing on Low- and middle-income settings. Over the past 7 years, he has coordinated several projects that focused on improving quality of health care provision for vulnerable mothers and babies in rural Uganda.

Contact: phillip.wanduru@ki.se

Selected Publications: Waiswa P, Wanduru P. Rapid policy development for essential RMNCAH services in sub-Saharan Africa: What happened during the COVID-19 pandemic and what needs to happen going forward? BMJ Glob Heal [Internet]. 2021 Sep 15;6(9):e006938. Available from: https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/9/e006938

Twitter: @phillwdru

Keywords: Newborn Health research; Public Health; Health systems evaluation