Thomas Ssemakadde Email & Phone Number

Uganda

• Working with Fleming Fund CG2 Phase II, Funded by UKAID managed by Mott Mac Donald.Overarching role: Provide technical assistance (TA) in strengthening laboratory capacity for improved production, analysis, & use of.
• Lead the development of needs assessment tools for the AMR national systems and microbiology/AMR laboratory across sectors (human, animal & environmental health)
• Lead the development & operationalization of procurement plans for lab reagents, consumables,& equipment service maintenance
• Provide TA for the development/review, implementation & monitoring of AMR surveillance plans at national & health facility levels
• Build technical capacity (isolation, identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing), quality assurance, specimen/isolate management/ transport/referral, equipment & supply chain management & data management for.
• Support & monitor the implementation of Lab QMS & biosafety biosecurity standards across the microbiology/AMR surveillance network

Kampala, Uganda

As a Diagnostics Specialist with the US-AID Infectious Diseases and Surveillance Project (IDDS), I have led impactful initiatives to strengthen Global Health Security (GHS), focusing on surveillance, laboratory systems strengthening, AMR (antimicrobial resistance), and zoonotic diseases. Below are my key achievements:Strategic Leadership & Needs.

Mbarara

Project Title: Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health Services in South western Region- Uganda (RHITES SW)Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)Key Deliverables:Providing technical oversight and technical leadership and capacity building in design, development, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of.

Mbarara

MJAP had the mandate to Provide and scale up of HCT, Basic HIV/AIDS care, TB/HIV integrated services, ART including Post-exposure prophylaxis and support for victims of sexual and Gender-based violence in the two largest national teaching hospitals and several satellite clinics.Project Name: (Scaling up HIV/ART treatment in Mbarara, Butabika and Mulago.

Karamoja Region- ( Kaabong, Kotido, Abim, Moroto, Napak, Amudat, Nakapiripirit)

Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) emerged from the Mulago-Mbarara Teaching Hospitals JointAIDS Program (MJAP) which was established in November 2004 under the then Makerere University Faculty of Medicine with funding from the US President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for the provision of comprehensive HIV/AIDS services.Project.

Kampala Uganda

Scaling up Provider Initiated Counseling and Testing in Referral Hospitals. (Based at ISS Clinic Mulago)Funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Key Achievements:Participated in planning, directing, budgeting, coordinating, monitoring and evaluation of laboratory services in the unit.Participated in HIV clinical research and training of.

Uganda

Conservation Through Public Health is a non - profit, non governmental organization, founded in 2003 with a mission to promote conservation and public Health by using Integrated approaches to improving primary health care to people and their animals in and around protected areas in Africa. (Preventing zoonotic cross infections at the animal, wildlife and.

Master'S Degree, Microbiology, Cgpa: 4.1 4

Thesis: Prevalence, associated factors and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of selected salmonella species and pathogenic E. coli.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Public Health, B- Cgpa: 3.96

Thesis: Seroprevalence & Risk Factors Associated with Hepatitis B Infection Among HIV/TB Co- infected Patients in selected Health Centre.

Bachelors Degree, Bio Medical Laboratory Technology (Bblt)