Dr. Jesca Nsungwa is the Commissioner for Maternal and Child Health at the Ministry of Health of Uganda. As child health expert with a doctorate in Health Systems Development and a Master’s in Pediatrics, she brings in more than fifteen years’ experience in developing, implementing, managing, researching health programs in Uganda. She has collaborated with UN agencies, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, supporting scientific and professional groups in the areas of community, primary and institutional child health care systems, IMNCI, HBB, premature birth deaths prevention, MPDSR and birth defects newborn sepsis among others. She has championed a number of newborn and child health programs including IMCI and community case management. She has also been at the forefront designing innovations and extending newborn health services to primary care levels. She has evaluated many public health programs and innovations in Uganda and elsewhere. She has done policy, program implementation and formative research and peer reviewed publications. She also served as co-president of the Uganda Pediatric Association. She was selected and trained as a Millennium Development Goal 4 champion and is also a member of several organizational management boards. Prior to coming to the Ministry Dr Jesca served as a peadiatrician in Mulago National Referral Hospital. She obtained her M.D. from the Makerere University of and her PhD. from the Karolinska University, Sweden