Private Sector Engagement Coordinator

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.

Ritah’s expertise in marketing, event management, communication and negotiation make her adept at working with both health professionals and non-health professionals to assist with queries and concerns related to the health sector, coordinating feedback from UHF members on proposed policies and legislation to the MoH and Parliament of Uganda.

Ritah is the lead for the Private Sector RMNCAH Platform, coordinating meetings, communication, updates and progress reporting between the platform members and the MoH. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, she mobilized online participation in webinars, meetings, virtual training sessions for health workers and virtual conferences, for the UHF membership. Ritah coordinated the application of the COVID-19 readiness assessments to inform the UHF strategy for support to the private sector.