Joseph Akuze Waiswa is a Research Fellow at Makerere University School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy Planning and Management where he is involved in teaching and supervising students pursuing their MSc programmes in Public Health and Health Services Research. He is the Technical Co-ordinator of the Every Newborn Action Plan Measurement Improvement Roadmap within the INDEPTH Network. He also co-ordinates the INDEPTH Maternal Newborn Working Group. Joseph has an MSc in Public Health from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He also has a BSc (Honours) in Statistics from Makerere University