Prof. Freddie Ssengooba is an Associate Professor of Health Economics and Health Systems Management with over 20 years of teaching and research in health policy and systems. 

He is the Chair of Health Policy Planning & Management (HPPM) department and Director SPEED Project and the Center for Health Policy and Systems Development (CHPSD) at Makerere University School of Public Health. 

As a director of SPEED Project - a program of applied policy analyses to support universal coverage in Uganda, Prof Ssengooba leads a partnership of agencies to respond to policy problems and demand for advice from the government of Uganda. 

He is a seasoned researcher in health systems and policy.

Prof. Ssengooba is well embedded in the national and regional health and development discourses, think-tank taskforces and as advisory boards for health agencies like National Planning Authority, WHO-Afro, Wellcome Trust, KEMRI and Health Systems Global.