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Grace Ndeezi is a Ugandan female pediatrician and a professor of pediatrics and child health at Makerere University of Health Sciences with over 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals on nutrition, HIV, pneumonia, malaria, sickle cell anemia, diarrheal diseases, neonatal health and child heath interventions, such as immunization, breast feeding and other common childhood diseases.[1][2] She has collaborated with other faculty and health professionals on three continents, including facilitation in Zimbabwe, Eritrea, and Kenya.[2]

Education

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Ndeezi earned her MBChB from Makerere University and her PhD jointly from Makerere University and the University of Bergen in Norway.[1][3][4]

Career

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Ndeezi is a professor at the School of Medicine at Makerere University's College of Health Science.[5] She is also a team member at the Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Health, a collaborative endeavor between Makerere University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.[6]

Ndeezi is also a health and medical sciences fellow at the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS), where she serves as treasurer and member of the UNAS Council for the 2022-2025 term.[2]

She has also served as deputy to the Editor-in-Chief of African Health Sciences.[3]

Select publications

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  • Nankabirwa, V., Mukunya, D., Ndeezi, G., Odongkara, B., Arach, A. & Achora, V., Mugenyi, L, Sebit, M., Wandabwa, J., Waako, P., Tylleskär, T., & Tumwine, J. (2024). Can an integrated intervention package including peer support increase the proportion of health facility births? A cluster randomised controlled trial in Northern Uganda. BMJ Open, 14(2).
  • Ndeezi, G., Mor, S. M., Ascolillo, L. Rr, Tasimwa, H. B., Nakato, R., Kayondo, L. N., Tzipori, S., Mukunya, D., Griffiths, J. K., & Tumwine, J.K. Giardia duodenalis in Ugandan children aged 9-36 months in Kampala, Uganda: Prevalence and associated Factors. (2023, July). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 109(1), 147-152.
  • Biermann, O., Nordenstam, A., Muwonge, T., Kabiri, L., Ndeezi, G., & Alfvén, T. (2023). Sustainable preventive integrated child health care: Reflections on the importance of multidisciplinary and multisectoral stakeholder engagement. Global Health Action, 16.
  • Båge, K., Bate, C., Tomasdotter, L., Mala Ali, M., Alasow, M., Ndejjo, R., Hellden, D., Ndeezi, G., Alfvén, T., & Wanyenze, R. (2022). Managing innovation for sustainable health: Rethinking training of health officials in fragile states. European Journal of Public Health, 32(3).
  • Ndeezi, G., Kiyaga, C., Hernandez, A. G., Munube, D., Howard, T. A., Ssewanyana, I., ... & Aceng, J. R. (2016). Burden of sickle cell trait and disease in the Uganda Sickle Surveillance Study (US3): a cross-sectional study. The Lancet Global Health, 4(3), e195-e200.
  • Ndeezi, G., Tylleskär, T., Ndugwa C. M., & Tumwine, J. K. (2012). Multiple micronutrient supplementation does not reduce diarrhoea morbidity in Ugandan HIV-infected children: a randomised controlled trial. Paediatrics and International Child Health, 32(1), 14-21.
  • Ndeezi, G. (2012). Nodding Disease or syndrome: What is the way forward? African Health Sciences, 12(3), 240-241.
  • Hotz, C., Loechl, C., Lubowa, A., Tumwine, J. K., Ndeezi, G., Nandutu Masawi, A., ... & Gilligan, D. O. (2012). Introduction of β-carotene–rich orange sweet potato in rural Uganda resulted in increased vitamin A intakes among children and women and improved vitamin A status among children. The Journal of Nutrition, 142(10), 1871-1880.
  • Byamugisha, R., Åstrøm, A. N., Ndeezi, G., Karamagi, C. A., Tylleskär, T., & Tumwine, J. K. (2011). Male partner antenatal attendance and HIV testing in eastern Uganda: a randomized facility‐based intervention trial. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 14(1), 43-43.
  • Ndeezi, G., Tylleskär, T., Ndugwa C. M., & Tumwine, J. K. (2010). Effect of multiple micronutrient supplementation on survival of HIV-infected children in Uganda: a randomized, controlled trial. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 13(1), 18-18.
  • Nakawesi, J. S., Wobudeya, E., Ndeezi, G., Mworozi, E. A., & Tumwine, J. K. (2010). Prevalence and factors associated with rotavirus infection among children admitted with acute diarrhea in Uganda. BMC pediatrics, 10, 1-5.
  • Mpimbaza, A., Ndeezi, G., Staedke, S., Rosenthal, P. J., & Byarugaba, J. (2008). Comparison of buccal midazolam with rectal diazepam in the treatment of prolonged seizures in Ugandan children: a randomized clinical trial. Pediatrics, 121(1), e58-e64.
  • Tumwine, J. K., Kekitiinwa, A., Bakeera-Kitaka, S., Ndeezi, G., Downing, R., Feng, X., ... & Tzipori, S. (2005). Cryptosporidiosis and microsporidiosis in Ugandan children with persistent diarrhea with and without concurrent infection with the human immunodeficiency virus. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 73(5), 921-925.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Profile: Grace Ndeezi". ResearchGate.
  2. ^ a b c "UNAS Fellows". UNAS. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
  3. ^ a b "Grace Ndeezi". Welcome to Makerere University School of Medicine (MakSOM). Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  4. ^ "Norwegian-Ugandan Friendship". University of Bergen. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
  5. ^ "Faculty - Department of Paediatrics and Child Health". Welcome to Makerere University School of Medicine (MakSOM). Retrieved 2024-01-26.
  6. ^ "Grace Ndeezi - Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health". 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2024-01-26.


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