Peter Waiswa is an Associate Professor at Makerere University School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Uganda and also a visiting Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He is the Founder and Coordinator of the INDEPTH Network Maternal and Newborn Research Group in Accra, Ghana and the Makerere University Maternal and Newborn Centre of Excellence in Uganda. Dr Waiswa is a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Advisory Board for Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health