I am a Medical Statistician and Epidemiologist, with a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), a Master’s in Public Health from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Masters, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Statistics and a Bachelor of Statistics and Bachelors of Statistics (Honours) from Makerere University. I have over 10 years of experience in conducting and leading research studies such as developing and appraising methodologies for improved capture of adverse pregnancy outcomes (stillbirths, early neonatal deaths, and neonatal deaths) and measurement errors (potential omission and displacement). I have led previous projects including a Preterm Birth Initiative East Africa (PTBi-EA) discovery grant entitled “An Algorithm to Predict Newborn Complications in the First 28 days of Life at Iganga General and Jinja Regional Referral Hospital (N-COP Study)”, performed as the principal statistician and research associate on all Center of Excellence for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Research which is hosted at Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) within the department of Health Policy Planning and Management (HPPM). I have collaborated on various previous studies (such as ALERT, MANEST, and PTBi-EA among others). I have also previously coordinated the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Working Group within the INDEPTH Network and was the technical coordinator for the Every Newborn Action Plan measurement improvement roadmap a multi-site and multi-country study conducted within the INDEPTH Network Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites.