Dr. Irene Christine Nakachwa Board Chairperson

Areas of expertise
  • Health Specialist with experience in HIV/PMTCT, Health and nutrition, WASH, Health Systems Strengthening etc
  • Leadership and people management
  • Supervision, Coaching and mentorship skills
  • Program management (Planning, budgeting, Monitoring and evaluation etc)
  • Resource mobilization (Funding concept & proposal development)
  • Very good Communication & relation skills
  • Stakeholders’ coordination and engagement; MoH, district leadership, donors, other Implementing Partners etc.
  • Event (meetings, workshops, trainings, conferences) organization skills
  • Report writing
  • Continuous Quality improvement
  • Employee recruitment, motivation & performance management
  • Epidemic surveillance and response

Brief Bio

Dr. Irene Nakachwa is a public health specialist with over fifteen years’ experience in health programs management both with local government, international NGOs and lately UN. She is a medical doctor & holder of a Master of Public Health from Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam Netherlands.

Her abilities include developing strategic guidance and overseeing implementation of health programs including PMTCT, HIV prevention, care & treatment, Nutrition, WASH and reproductive and maternal child health, employee recruitment, building high performance teams etc. She was the person behind the scale up of PMTCT in Masaka district and the successful roll out of the various HIV policy changes including, PMTCT Option B Plus, Early retention and birth cohort monitoring, HIV test and treat, Differentiated services delivery etc. in South West Uganda.

Currently, she is a Heath specialist for Child survival and development UNICEF-Uganda, where she provides leadership and management for the Western & central zonal office health & nutrition team whose major focus is nutrition, maternal and child health, HIV-AIDS care and treatment. Prior to this, she was the Associate Director of Health at World Vision Uganda, where she led and managed the country’s health technical program with a similar focus; In the past she worked with: EGPAF as a Senior Technical Advisor for PMTCT and Care & Treatment; Masaka Municipal Council as the Principal Medical Officer Health; Masaka district local Government as the PMTCT coordinator and Senior Medical Officer in-charge of Bukoto Central HSD. She is a Christian lady with high integrity and very ethical in conduct. She has a special passion for children and generally believes equity in health service provision is fundamental for development change.

Contacts

Tel: +256702740913/+256772844698
Email: inakachwa79@gmail.com
skype: mayegar

Some of our programs
Safe Birth Project

The Safe Birth Project was born in 2016 when Bishop Kaggwa the Bishop of Masaka Diocese tasked Dr. Sherry Teefey, Professor of Radiology at Washington University, to address the challenge of obstetric fistula in Masaka, Uganda. Uganda has one of the highest obstetric fistula rates in the world. It is caused by obstructed labor and

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How can we help you?

Contact us at the Masaka Diocesan Medical Services (MDMS) office nearest to you or submit a business inquiry online.