Richard Muhindo
ID:
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Fighting COVID-19: Assessment of Health Systems Support for Psychosocial Preparedness and Needs of Health Workers Providing Essential Patient Care in Uganda
REFNo: HS715ES
3. To develop and propose a model for psychosocial and emotional support for healthcare professionals working in contexts of contagious disease outbreaks ,2. To examine health systems institutional capacity to provide psychosocial and emotional support to health professionals providing essential care to people with COVID-19.,1. To describe the psychosocial preparedness and of healthcare professionals providing essential care to people with COVID-19,To assess the health systems’ support for psychosocial preparedness and needs of healthcare professionals providing essential care for people with COVID-19 in Uganda,
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Uganda |
2020-08-20 |
2023-08-20 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Japheth Kwiringira Nkiriyehe
ID: UNCST-2019-R000408
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GEO-SOCIO, CAPACITY INTERSECTIONS ON HEALTH CARE OUTCOMES IN KALANGALA ISLANDS, UGANDA
REFNo: SS506ES
Main Objective
To explore how intersections of social, geographical and health provider capacity influence access to health care and outcomes.
Specific Objectives
1. Investigate the relationship between geo-social factors, health care providers’ capacity and health care access (supply and demand factors) produce health outcomes.
2. Investigate the relationship between geo-social factors, health care providers’ capacity and utilisation of health care services.
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Uganda |
2020-08-20 |
2023-08-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Hawa Nalwoga
ID:
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Improving access to prompt and adequate cancer care: Liquid biopsy biobank to promote early cancer diagnosis, screening and monitoring
(Makerere University Liquid Biopsy Biobank Project (MakLBBP)
REFNo: HS808ES
1. To create a liquid biopsy biobank of blood samples obtained from Ugandan patients with any of the five cancers: cervical cancer, breast cancers, prostate, colorectal and oesophageal cancers and from normal control participants
2. To assess awareness, knowledge and opinion of cancer patients and health volunteers regarding causes of cancer, cancer diagnosis and management of cancer
Secondary specific objectives
3. To explore likely acceptability and perceptions of cancer patients and caregivers towards biospecimen donation for biobanking to use in cancer research at Hoima, and Jinja Regional Referral hospitals and Uganda Cancer Institute
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Uganda |
2020-08-20 |
2023-08-20 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Matt Baillie Smith
ID:
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Skills acquisition and employability through volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda
REFNo: SS447ES
Research Objectives
1.To conceptualize the relationship between different forms of volunteering and the acquisition of skills by Ugandan refugee youth.
2. To map and explain where and how young refugees in Uganda are engaged in volunteering.
3. To identify and understand the factors that shape participation in volunteering by refugee youth in Uganda.
4. To assess the impact of volunteering by refugee youth in Uganda on employability and achieving meaningful work.
Research Questions
1. How is volunteering understood by young refugees in Uganda and how does this vary between settings (e.g. urban or rural settlement), and by factors such as gender, age, sexuality, nationality and ethnicity?
2. Where and how do young refugees in Uganda engage in volunteering?
3. What factors shape young refugees’ participation in volunteering in Uganda?
4. How have volunteering experiences shaped the employment trajectories of refugees who have found meaningful work in Uganda and how does the impact of volunteering on employability vary by setting, and by factors such as gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality?
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UK |
2020-08-19 |
2023-08-19 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Terence Odoch Amoki
ID:
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Understanding Campylobacteriosis transmission dynamics using "One Health", computational and systems dynamics modeling approaches
REFNo: HS663ES
The specific objectives are:
i. Determine fecal occurrence of Campylobacter in children poultry and pigs
ii. Characterize Campylobacter from children pigs and poultry
iii. Describe relatedness of the Campylobacter isolates
iv. Develop transmission models for Campylobacter
v. Characterize phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter organisms isolated from human’s poultry and pigs in Uganda
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Uganda |
2020-08-19 |
2023-08-19 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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