Doug is the Director of Planning at UCU.

As Planner, Doug is responsible for the University's Strategic Plan, Quality Assurance, planning for upgrades in the University's Study Centers around Uganda, and forecasting student enrollment and the required human, information, and facility resources needed to serve those students.  

Doug helped develop the University Strategic Plan for 2006-2015 and is working with the Administration, all Faculties, and the 5 distinct campuses or study centres of UCU to implement the plan.

The plan emphasizes "quality over quantity" in the sense that students who have just left secondary school should receive an intensive and holistic education and character formation experience that includes academics, spiritual growth, and opportunities to develop leadership skills.  The Main Campus in Mukono, for example, should have no more than 6000 "day" students.  UCU's Christian Identity should pervade all aspects of the University programmes. 

The University plan also calls for a balance between Science and Humanities.  Doug is working with the Faculties to plan a transition from a heavy emphasis on humanities to a steady growth in information technology, agriculture, and of course, health sciences.  

Until November 2008 Doug was Acting Head of the Department of Health Sciences.  Among the programs he helped establish are: 

• Health and Wholeness General Course 

• Bachelor of Nursing Science Degree program

• Bachelor of Community Health

• Save the Mothers - Master of Public Health Leadership

• UCU HIV/AIDS Initiative

• UCU Health Policy

• UCU Health and Safety Committee

Doug is still promoting Health by teaching the Health and Wholeness course to all students at UCU.  Health and Wholeness is taught to all students at UCU - over 1200 students per year.  Thousands of students have taken this semester-long program.  UCU has published an innovative workbook to support this course.  The course is applied, not theoretical, causing students to reflect on and apply lessons to themselves and their families.  Topics include nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, sexuality/AIDS risk, maternal/child health, fitness, early intervention, infectious disease, sexually transmitted disease, addiction, and building a healthy society.  All students learn that health is not the absence of disease; instead, they explore how physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health complement each other.  The course won a major award for academic excellence and innovation from the  CLOAKING " project, a World Bank funded program at Makerere University. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Students are motivated by this course.  We have received great testimonials from individuals (e.g., who have altered diet or changed recommitted to abstinence) and communities (e.g., a group of students worked in a village for 10 weeks on health education.)

The UCU HIV/AIDS initiative also recognizes holistic health as an aim: when you are socially, emotionally, and spiritually strong you will withstand temptations for sex outside of marriage.  That is the primary means of avoiding HIV in Uganda.

Doug also works with the University administration on targeted strategies for improving health among the 10,000 member community, including improving health benefits and benefit administration for students and staff, improving health education, and developing strategies for reducing common an d expensive problems on campus such as malaria.