FLORENCE BAINGANA, M.D.

Mental Health Specialist, The World Bank

Florence Baingana qualified as a medical doctor in 1983 and as a psychiatrist in 1990 from Makerere University Medical School in Uganda. She worked at Butabika National Referral Psychiatric Hospital then at the Department of Psychiatry of Makerere University Medical School before joining the Ministry of Health in 1996. Dr Baingana’s role at the Ministry of Health was to establish the Mental Health Division. By the time she left the position in March 2000, standards and guidelines for the management of common mental health problems had been developed, mental health had been recognised as one of the components of the Essential Health Package of Uganda, the Mental Health Act (1958) had been reviewed and mental health had been integrated into the Health Services Bill (1999).