Evelyn Ninsiima | Global Health Corps

Evelyn Ninsiima

Evelyn

Co-fellow

Kai

Kai Cowger

Placement Country: Uganda
Title: Health System Quality Improvement Coordinator: HIV/AIDS and TB Intervention
contribution towards change gives me satisfaction.

Evelyn is from Uganda. She is a practicing midwife and trained at the Kabale school midwifery program. She completed her undergraduate studies in Community Health at Uganda Christian University, Mukono. She previously worked with GTZ in a refugee settlement, where she helped mothers effectively utilize health services for better pregnancy outcomes and helped local children access and benefit from an expanded immunization program. Prior to joining GHC, Evelyn worked at Bwindi hospital, where she initiated a Preventing-Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV program that saw a significant number of mothers living with HIV give birth to children free of HIV. Currently, she works at the Uganda Infectious Diseases Institute as an EMTCT midwife mentor.