MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
Department of Public health Science, Global Health, Karolinska Institutet
Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences, School of public
health, College of Health Sciences Makerere Universiry
Seeking referral care for newborns in eastern Uganda:
community health workers’ role, caretakers’ compliance and
provision of care
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Karolinska Institutet
and Makerere University to be publicaly defended at Davies Lecture
Theatre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences.
Friday the 28th November 2014, at 09.00am
By:
Christine Nalwadda Kayemba
Principal Supevisors :
Prof. Stefan Swartling Peterson
Karolinska Institutet
Department of Public Health Sciences
Opponent:
Prof Uwe Ewald
Uppsala University
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health
Assoc. Prof. David Guwatudde
Makerere University, College of Health
Sciences, School of Public Health
Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Examination Board:
Prof. Elisabeth Faxelid
Karolinska Institutet
Department of Public Health Sciences
Co-supervisor:
Prof. Göran Tomson
Karolinska Institutet,
Department of Public Health Sciences and
Assoc. Prof George Nasinyama
Makerere University, Directorate of Research
and Graduate Training
Learning Informatics Management Ethics
Assoc. Prof Jerome Kabakyenga
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Dr. Juliet Kiguli
Makerere University, College of Health
Sciences,School of Public Health
Dept. of Community Health and Behavioural
Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Peter Waiswa
Makerere University, College of Health
Sciences, School of Public Health
Dept. of Health Policy, Planning and
Management
Stockholm 2014