Victoria Nakibuuka

Victoria Nakibuuka is a Ugandan neonatologist and a paediatrician who works at Nsambya Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. She is head of department of neonates at Nsambya Hospital. She is also member of the national newborn steering committee and national maternal and perinatal review committee. She pioneered perinatal death audits at Nsambya hospital which was later scaled up in the whole country and setting up one of the first neonatal intensive care units in Uganda.

Background and education Nakibuuka went to Nakasero Primary School for her primary education and later joined Nabisunsa Girls High School for her secondary education. She joined Mbarara University of Science and Technology where she pursued her bachelor's degree in medicine. She teamed up with other health professionals and introduced the use of breastmilk among preterm babies, who were less than 1.5 kg.

In 2019, Nakibuuka and several other authors published another a journal named Facility readiness in low and middle-income countries to address care of high risk/ small and sick newborns.