Dr. Peter Waiswa is a health systems researcher with particular focus on newborn health and development and maternal-newborn-child health services.Dr. Waiswa’s research and program interests in low- and middle-income countries include health systems research including policy analysis, implementation and operations research, and how well these are linked to programming. He holds a joint PhD degree from Karolinska Institutet and Makerere University, and is on the faculty at Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda, as well as Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.