“Strengthening Maternal Healthcare Systems”
University
Makerere University
Area of Focus
Health Sciences
Education
Mercy Muwema Mwanja is a Registered Nurse, pursuing her PhD in Health Sciences at Makerere University. She holds a Masters of Nursing Science from the Uganda Christian University, and Bachelor of Nursing Science from Mbarara University of Science and Technology. With close to 14 years experience working in both the public and private sector, Mercy has experience in nursing and midwifery curriculum design and evaluation, quality improvements in education programs, and regulation of nursing and midwifery services. She leads quality assurance and improvement initiatives at the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council. Prior to this role, Mercy worked as a lecturer at the Aga Khan University in Uganda.
Research & Work
As a Nurse, Mercy believes that the quality of care provided to any health service consumer should be a health professional’s first priority. Her research assesses the quality of perinatal care and develops a context specific quality of perinatal care delivery model aimed at reducing perinatal deaths. She specifically focuses on maternal health care quality that aims to improve the continuity, and the coordination of, and transition in care accessed by pregnant women and their families. Her study will encourage policymakers in Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) to rethink how to strengthen existing health care systems to deliver a coordinated continuum of care that is ultimately easier for pregnant women.
