Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Katabaazi S. PRIEST

Areas of expertise
  • Regularly interacts with Masaka Diocese staff, volunteers, and community organizations, allow for professionalism, and with dedication.
  • A Senior medicines management supervisor and mentor
  • Has extensive knowledge on financial literacy and more specifically personal finance
  • In-Charge Of Schools, Villa Maria Parish, Masaka Diocese

Others

  • Chairman Southern Buganda Inter-Diocesan Education Committee
  • Diocesan Health Coordinator
  • Board Member Mbuye Farm School
  • Member Community Advisory Board-MRC
  • Member Uganda Episcopal Health Commission
  • Chairman Community Advisory Committee Medical Research Council, Masaka
  • Coordinator Masaka Diocesan Dreams Consortium
Education
  • Bachelor of Philosophy, Katigondo Major Seminary
  • Bachelor of Divinity, Ggaba National Seminary
  • Health Unit Management
  • Master of Science, Health Services Management, Nkozi University

Brief Bio

Father Katabaazi is a Catholic Priest, aged 56, ordained in 1996 for the Masaka Diocese. He has served in various leadership capacities as Pastor of souls, health manager, entrepreneur, and promoter of Education. As a young priest, he was in charge of schools at Villa Maria Parish and was later appointed a Parish Priest for Mbuye Parish where he worked for eight years.

Besides being involved in the general apostolate like any other priest, Fr. Emmanuel has been deeply involved in health service delivery. In 1999 and 2000 he spearheaded the establishment of two health facilities in Rakai District. In two 2006 he was appointed the Diocesan Health Coordinator, a position he has held to date. As a Health Coordinator, he has been involved in health system strengthening for Diocesan health facilities including two Hospitals and 36 lower-level units.

In partnership with Joint Medical Store, he established a Distribution Outlet for the distribution of pharmaceuticals in the Greater Masaka region to both private and public health service providers.

In collaboration with other partners, he has also been involved in the implementation of community-based programs to improve the health standards of people in the areas of water and sanitation, child nutrition, HIV prevention, HIV Care and Orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) programming.

As Coordinator of Masaka Diocesan Medical Services (MDMS), he is currently taking a lead in the implementation of the DREAMS Project in two political districts whose main goal is to reduce HIV incidences among adolescent and young women (AGYW) through addressing structural drivers. He is also the Team leader at MDMS implementing USAID’s Keeping Children Healthy and Safe in six districts, under a Consortium of five organizations led by TPO-Uganda as their prime. In partnership with Micro Finance Partners for Africa (MPA), Fr. Emmanuel is also coordinating a safe birth project whose main objective is to prevent vesicovaginal fistula (VVF).

He is currently the Chairman of the Community Advisory Board (CAB) for the Medical Research Council (MRC) representing the Catholic Church, one of the big constituencies. He is an independent member of the COVAC Uganda Trial Steering Committee (TSC) and represents the CAB members at the PrEPVacc Trial periodical conferences.

Fr. Emmanuel holds a Bachelor of Philosophy and Social studies, a Bachelor of Divinity and a Master of Science in Health Services Management, from Uganda Martyrs University.

Some of our programs
Safe Birth Project

The Safe Birth Project was born in 2016 when Bishop Kaggwa the Bishop of Masaka Diocese tasked Dr. Sherry Teefey, Professor of Radiology at Washington University, to address the challenge of obstetric fistula in Masaka, Uganda. Uganda has one of the highest obstetric fistula rates in the world. It is caused by obstructed labor and

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