Cecilia Nantume Okiring is a Nurse-Midwife and public health professional. She is passionate about using implementation and operations research, to drive health care quality improvement, patient safety and policy change. Over the past 10 years Cecilia has used her expertise in research, clinical care, policy analysis, Policy and budget advocacy, systems strengthening, quality improvement, monitoring and evaluation to improve quality of services and domestic investments in sexual and reproductive health
Cecilia holds Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Makerere University, Master of Public health specializing in health economics, Policy and Health care management from Karolinska Institute and professional training certificates in Policy development and advocacy for global Health, sexual and reproductive health on global perspective, critical care nursing and, monitoring and evaluation of public health programs.
Cecilia is currently an independent Research and policy advocacy consultant in Uganda working with patient organizations to advocate for equitable access to qualitycare patients’ safety.