Grace Ndeezi

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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] She has won many competitive research grants. She's conducted a lot of research internationally and worked in her field of study, and still currently researches actively. She has collaborated with other faculty and health professionals on three continents, including facilitation in Zimbabwe, Eritrea, and Kenya. [2]

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She's conducted a lot of research internationally, and still currently researches actively. Ndeezi and her colleagues have performed procedures on mainly pregnant women and children for cures.

Education

Ndeezi earned her MBChB from Makerere University and her PhD jointly from Makerere University and the University of Bergen in Norway, where she has also taught classes. [3]

Career

Ndeezi is a professor at the School of Medicine at Makerere University's College of Health Science. 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. She has had multiple opportunities in her lifetime to work with many international committees and collaborators from high income countries. [4]

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.

She has also served as deputy to the Editor-in-Chief of African Health Sciences. She is also part of several committees at the College of Health and Sciences.

Ndeezi has more than 25 years of experience in pediatrics, research in her area of study, and teaching. The Joint Clinical Research Centre in Uganda is currently in charge of the Joint Clinical Research Centre. [5]

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References

  1. "UNAS Fellows". UNAS. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  2. "Faculty - Department of Paediatrics and Child Health". Welcome to Makerere University School of Medicine (MakSOM). Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  3. Partnership (IAP), the InterAcademy. "Grace Ndeezi". www.interacademies.org. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  4. "Grace Ndeezi". Welcome to Makerere University School of Medicine (MakSOM). Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  5. "Prof. Grace Ndeezi (Co-Investigator) | SickleInAfrica". sickleinafrica.org. Retrieved 2025-03-21.