The umbrella body for Uganda’s non-state health sector.

Grace is Executive Director of Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) an association of associations, membership umbrella body for the Uganda private health sector, championing private health sector interests.

Prior to joining UHF, Grace was Assistant General Manager at AAR, the regions oldest HMO for eight years. Initially in the capacity of Customer Care Manager, Grace was responsible for quality service delivery across all AAR facilities, she was promoted to be responsible for the AAR Uganda Operations division contributing to budget management, strategy, and business development. While heading the Operations department Grace was responsible for the supervision of seven departments, formulation and institutionalization of systems and processes to manage the 130 facility Clinic Network, admission case management, member underwriting and supported teams for growth of membership from 9,000 to 40,000, underwriting of existing and new members, customer care and member retention and claims management.

Ivan as the Communications and Programs Manager, directs the organization's communications strategy and oversees program implementation. Ivan has over 15 years of experience in the private health sector, including pharmaceutical supply chain, insurance, health service delivery, contract and grant implementation of programs that improve health systems. Ivan represents UHF on the Ministry of Health's Clinical and Health Infrastructure, Medicines Procurement and Management, Fistula, and Health Information, Innovation, and Research (HIIRE) Technical Working Groups. Ivan is part of the Health Data Collaborative (HDC) representing Uganda’s private sector.

Ivan has contributed to the writing of proposals and coordinated the successful implementation of several grants, contracts and programs funded by IFC World Bank, USAID, MasterCard Foundation and SWECARE, ensuring timely and quality reporting. Ivan has been the program point person in the USAID Health Systems Strengthening Activity that saw UHF working through city health teams and local government organs for the onboarding of private health facilities into the national COVID-19 response as static vaccination sites. Ivan oversaw the training of health workers and data entrants ensuring access and accurate and timely reporting from private facilities of COVID-19 vaccine data into the EPIVAC system. Ivan participates in the weekly COVID-19 coordination meetings with development and implementing partners, and prepares update presentations on contribution of the private sector for the Greater Metropolitan Kampala update meetings and the Ministry of Health through UNEPI.

James holds a Bachelor of Business Administration-Accounting option, a Diploma in Cooperative and Business Administration and is a CPA level III. He has in-depth knowledge and experiences in USAID rules and regulations, project and grants management obtained through training attended as part of the implementation team in different projects. James has over ten years of varied experience including finance and administration, human resource management, accounting, grants management, research works, proposal and report writing and loan management.

He is currently pursuing additional CPA qualifications, strengthening his financial technical understanding and policy adherence. Prior to joining UHF, James worked as the Finance and Administration focal person with Northern Uganda Agro Business Ltd. He also worked as Finance and Grants Manager with Vision in Action PEPFAR funded program, he was the Project Accountant for USAID SPRING Program, USAID/STAR Program, the contract accountant with Comboni Samaritans of Gulu and Project Accountant with WACFO for both EU funded programs and USAID/ACDI VOCA project.

Ritah holds a degree in Actuarial Science and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management. She has over 7 years-experience coordinating the engagement, recruitment and growth of the UHF membership, steering it from 14 to the over 65 members. Ritah plans, coordinates and executes monthly UHF member networking events and is the event director for the regional East Africa Healthcare Federation Conference when hosted in Uganda. Ritah is adept at convening groups, individuals, organizations, and through steering the dissemination of the Uganda UHC Roadmap, Ritah has established multi-sectoral partnerships and collaborations for UHF that provide synergies for resource mobilization for the health sector.

She has supported the Ministry of Health to convene the Public Private Partnerships in Health Technical Working Group, improving the regularity and participation of members and quality of the agenda through close monitoring of trends, the health sector developments and interactions with health sector players. She also spearheaded the planning and execution of several inter-country meetings under the USAID African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions Project.

Michael is a methodical, self-driven, articulate, result oriented, hardworking and open minded individual with demonstrated experience, knowledge, skills and Technical abilities in Supply Chain Management and Health Systems Strengthening. Strong interpersonal and intrapersonal skills ensuring the ability to work in a highly diverse environment in which respectful and effective communication skills are integral. Proven strengths in collaboration, training, team work, management, problem resolution, over 13 years experience in HIV/AIDS, TB and pharmaceutical supply chain management.

Michael hold a masters of Public Health, a bachelor’s degree in Public administration and a diploma in Pharmacy. He has worked as a Pharmacy Technician with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Technical officer supply chain, Technical Advisor Supply chain with Management Sciences for Health Uganda and as a Program Officer Supply chain with URC.

Lillian supports all UHF activities in monitoring, evaluation and learning. She is a methodical worker with a keen eye for detail steering the UHF project planning and management process, ensuring the tracking of indicators and timelines for efficient and timely delivery of project and UHF annual workplan deliverables. Lillian has mastered prioritization of tasks in the busy UHF work environment, well served by her flexible, team focused, can-do attitude. Lillian leads the data extraction and analysis with a private sector lens, she has compiled reports and analyses that have guided the UHF approach and informed the concepts used to develop digital innovations to support strengthening data reporting into DHIS2.

Lillian has extracted learnings and shaped recommendation based on data sets that have been translated into the system reports for the recently digitized self-regulatory quality improvement system for quality improvement in private facilities. Lillian coordinated the focal persons charged with onboarding private health facilities in 12 cities, as COVID-19 vaccine static sites with support from USAID Health System Strengthening Activity and USAID Maternal Child Health Nutrition Activity.

Denis is an experienced IT professional with BSc in Software Engineering with 5 years’ experience in IT projects execution and management, IT Support and Administration, website management and maintenance, network administration and social media management.

He has coordinated the conceptualizing, development and launch of two IT health platforms; SQIS+, which assesses private facility quality improvement and Medical Records, and Data Reporting System, a patient data system that reports directly into DHIS2 under Mastercard Foundation, Private Sector Foundation Uganda and USAID/HSS Activity