Grace Ndeezi MBChB (Mak), MMED (Paed & Child Health Mak), PhD (UiB-Mak)

Grace Ndeezi is a professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at Makerere University College of Health Sciences with more than 20 years of experience in research, clinical paediatrics and teaching. She is a practicing clinician at Mulago National Referral Hospital, which is a teaching hospital for Makerere University. She has authored more than 120 publications in peer reviewed journals, supervised more than 40 Masters students and four PhD students to completion.  In the past she has been involved in multi-county trainings for child health programs such as IMCI and other Ministry of Health programs which enabled her obtain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by health systems in low income counties. She has had the opportunity to work with partners/ collaborators from high income countries such as the University of Bergen, Montpellier, Copenhagen, Tufts University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Although most of these collaborations were research and capacity building grants they enabled her obtain an in-depth understanding of the disparities between low and high income countries. She has been a deputy to the editor in Chief of African Health Sciences and currently chairs the Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) Research and Ethics Committee. She is a fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) where she chairs the Finance and Administration Committee. She is a member of Makerere University senate and sits on several committees at the College of Health Sciences.

Dated 5^th January 2021