Vincent Mujune

Vincent Mujune is the Country Director for StrongMinds in Uganda. Vincent is a little over 20 years of experience in the field of public health. Vincent has led scores of public health programmes in fields like community mental health, health systems strengthening through governance and accountability, reproductive, maternal and child health. As a public health professional, Vincent has led emergency responses during infectious disease outbreaks such as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), and COVID-19. Vincent has been teamed on work missions in Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Cameroon, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Sri-Lanka.    

Besides holding a Master of Public Health – Community Health major, Vincent is Trainer of Trainers for the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (MHgap) Intervention Guide, MHPSS Master Trainer for UNESCO and Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda, Mental Health in-service trainer and trainee for general Health Care Workers in Uganda.   Vincent is resourceful in Project Design, Planning and Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social and Behaviour Change programming among other areas. 

Vincent’s expertise has been tested in scaling community mental health solutions, social behaviour change, action research and intervention science, governance and accountability for the health sector, people centered advocacy, organisational development, Planning, monitoring Evaluation and Learning (PMEL), Project cycle management among others.  

Vincent’s passion for mental health has enabled him to work for leading organisations in the field such as StrongMinds Uganda, BasicNeeds in Uganda and the African Center for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims. Vincent is the current Board chairperson of BasicNeeds in Uganda and has served on the boards of reputable organisations like the Human Rights Network of Uganda and Nurses Reaching Out UK 

Vincent’s contributions have been diversely published in the fields of public health, mental health, health sector governance and accountability and management of emergency disease outbreaks.