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Kawooya  Jimmy
ID:
THE IMPACT OF WELFARE SERVICES ON TEACHER’S PERFORMANCE IN PRIVATE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN WAKISO DISTRICT, UGANDA
REFNo: SS2259ES

(i) To scrutinize the impact of monetary allowances on teachers' performance in private secondary schools in Wakiso District
(ii) To determine the effect of guidance and counselling services on teachers' performance in private secondary schools in Wakiso District
(iii) To investigate the impact of training and development on teachers' performance in private
secondary schools in Wakiso District
(iv) To analyze the influence of housing on teachers' performance in private secondary schools in Wakiso District
(v) To determine the impact of staff flextime on teachers' performance in private secondary schools in Wakiso District
 Uganda 2024-02-02 11:19:54 2027-02-02 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Michael  Baganizi
ID: UNCST-2023-R006352
 Rapid human centred design to develop, test and evaluate a job aid prototype for frontline immunization healthcare workers in Uganda
REFNo: HS3667ES

Needs Assessment 1. To assess the frontline immunization healthcare workers’ perceptions, practices and implementation of procedures using the current job aids. a. How well healthcare workers believe the available job aids support them to perform immunization processes or procedures b. How well supervisors believe the available job aids support their staff to perform immunization processes or procedures 2. To identify processes and procedures that may require a job aid versus another approach to improve HCW performance. Human Centered Design Workshops: 1. To prioritize the problem(s) (as identified through the needs assessment) that need to be addressed with job aid(s) with immunization HCWs and supervisors 2. To design practical, useful job aid prototype(s) around 2YL and catch-up immunizations with immunization HCWs and supervisors. ,1. To assess the uses, preferences and technical requirements of current and future 2YL immunization job aids, with the goal of identifying the knowledge gaps for administering the second dose of measles-containing-vaccine -second dose (MCV2) post introduction, including routine and catch-up vaccine job aids. 2. To design, test, and evaluate a prototype for MCV2 and catch-up immunization job aids with healthcare workers using the HCD methodology.,
 Uganda 2024-02-02 11:15:09 2027-02-02 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Eloise Pedersen
ID:
The effect of payoff and rank on chimpanzee foraging decisions
REFNo: NS724ES

Objective 1: To determine the presence or absence of a preference towards a. high payoff behavioral techniques and b. model rank in chimpanzees. Objective 2: To examine the impact of individual differences on transmission bias preference in chimpanzees.
 UK 2024-02-02 11:12:23 2027-02-02 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Karugahe Wilber
ID: UNCST-2023-R005686
 Exploring the mental health needs of orphans and vulnerable children in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda
REFNo: SS2264ES

• To understand the experiences, needs and views on mental health issues of OVCs and their carers
• To explore factors related to their participation in research

 Uganda 2024-01-31 11:19:28 2027-01-31 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Richard Tuhairwe
ID: UNCST-2023-R007692
 KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TOWARDS THE USE OF TELEMEDICINE TO ACCESS SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES: A CASE OF MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN UGANDA (KAUSTER STUDY).
REFNo: HS3731ES

Broad objective
To determine the knowledge and attitude of undergraduate students at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) towards the use of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
Specific objectives
i. To assess the knowledge of undergraduate students at MUST of the availability of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
ii. To examine the attitudes of undergraduate students at MUST towards the use of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
iii). To explore the determinants of knowledge and attitude of undergraduate students of MUST towards the use of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:22:43 2027-01-29 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Mia Appelbäck
ID:
Experiences of patients, caretakers and healthcare providers in the referral process for post-partum haemorrhage and other obstetric emergencies to Kawempe National Referral Hospital
REFNo: HS3589ES

Explore the women’s, their partners’ and/or other caretaker’s perception of the implications of the near-miss postpartum haemorrhage event, e.g., health and socioeconomic consequences.,Explore women’s, their partners’ and/or other caretaker’s experience of effective communication, respect and preservation of dignity and emotional support within the maternal healthcare and referral system,Map women’s journey, as well as influencing factors, through the healthcare and referral system from onset of labour to near-miss postpartum haemorrhage , through her, her partner’s and/or other caretaker’s perspective ,To better understand the women’s, their partners’ and/or other caretaker’s perspectives of near-miss postpartum haemorrhage event in the healthcare and referral system,Explore healthcare workers at Kawempe National Referral Hospital perceptions of challenges and facilitating factors when receiving referred obstetric emergencies.,Map the referral process from referring institute to national referral hospital as perceived by healthcare providers,Investigate what challenges and facilitating factors healthcare providers experience in the referral of obstetric emergencies to a higher-level institutions,Explore what factors affect decision-making in the referral of obstetric emergencies to a higher-level facility,To better understand the referral system for obstetric emergencies, primarily PPH, from healthcare providers´ perspectives. ,
 Sweden 2024-01-29 15:21:02 2027-01-29 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Jonathan Kayondo
ID: UNCST-2021-R008325
 TARGET MALARIA UGANDA PROTOCOL B2- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: MAINTENANCE OF WILD TYPE An. gambiae COLONIES IN THE ARTHROPOD CONTAINMENT LEVEL 1 (ACL1) INSECTARY AND HANDLING METHODS OPTIMIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Version 1.0 2023
REFNo: NS694ES

1.To Maintain the wild-type Anopheles strains Ag(WT) in the Uganda ACL1 insectary.
2.To support research and development preparatory studies in the insectary.
3.Support to Field Entomology, Stakeholder Engagement Regulatory activities.
4.To develop Staff capacity in preparation for research and development.

 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:19:10 2027-01-29 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Japheth Kwiringira Nkiriyehe
ID: UNCST-2019-R000408
 What do beneficiaries in the agro sector value chain consider Significant Change from Women Economic Empowerment?
REFNo: SS2141ES

Main Objective
What do beneficiaries of Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) consider significant in their lives?
Specific objective
i) To establish firsthand contextual accounts of what beneficiaries consider WEE to be.
ii) To explore what WEE beneficiaries consider as significant in their life.
iii) To identify ways to improve women economic empowerment interventions

 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:15:11 2027-01-29 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Engineer  Bainomugisha
ID: UNCST-2023-R005928
 AirQount: Autonomous vehicle emissions estimation system for low-resource cities
REFNo: SIR277ES

1. Design and build custom hardware for vehicle image capturing system for traffic data collection for training machine learning (ML) models
2. To collect traffic and vehicle data, curate and label the video streams and images resulting in usable datasets for training the AI models
3. Build a machine learning (ML) and computer vision-based system for vehicle recognition and classification that can be linked at available databases on vehicle estimation per vehicle.
4. To build a prototype software system that integrates the hardware and AI models for demonstration of the automated traffic emission estimation system
5. To pilot the developed software and hardware systems and assess their use in vehicle emissions understanding
 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:11:28 2027-01-29 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Namajja Ketty
ID:
Quality assurance and quality control for ethical practice in clinical research conducted in southwestern Uganda
REFNo: SS2263ES

To assess the quality assurance measures employed in clinical research in Southwestern Uganda. To establish quality control procedures used by clinical researchers in Southwestern Uganda. To determine the level of adherence and factors influencing adherence to ethical practices among clinical researchers of Southwestern Uganda
 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:09:58 2027-01-29 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Andrew Mujugira
ID: UNCST-2019-R000871
 Discrete choice experiment to guide HIV prevention counseling with novel HIV prevention products
REFNo: HS3665ES

To determine preferences for attributes of HIV prevention counseling that would support young women in Uganda to initiate and sustain use of a PrEP product.
 Uganda 2024-01-29 14:58:57 2027-01-29 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Jacob Negrey Douglas
ID:
Multisystem aging patterns in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) living at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda
REFNo: NS727ES

To better understand the biological and ecological forces that shape primate aging, we will assess both longitudinal and cross-sectional, age-related patterns of social, physiological, and physical variation in adult chimpanzees of the notably long-lived groups at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda. This project will integrate behavioral, genetic, endocrinological, immunological, and microbial data collected from wild chimpanzees. We will combine tried-and-tried observational and laboratory analyses with innovative, noninvasive omics-based approaches to studying physiological function. The proposed research will elucidate the advantages and limitations of wild chimpanzees as models of human health and aging and build an extensive multisystem dataset for future comparative chimpanzee research. The three primary goals of this research are outlined below: 1) Characterize cross-sectional and longitudinal aging trajectories across functional domains. How do functional domains vary in the timing and rate of age-related decline? Do some systems (e.g., physical function, immune function) exhibit later onset and/or slower rates of decline than do others? 2) Determine the extent of sex biases in aging trajectories in Ngogo chimpanzees. Given that female chimpanzees at Ngogo have greater life expectancies at birth than do males [25], do female chimpanzees also show slower or delayed rates of aging across most / all functional domains? Are aging effects more pronounced in some functional domains than others, and if so, which domains show greater sex biases? 3) Develop methods to noninvasively study chimpanzee aging. Given that the study of wild chimpanzees is strictly noninvasive, we will continue to develop, validate, and implement new methods for studying aging across a range of functional domains. Notably, we will continue to refine the use of video recordings to measure walking speeds, which are an invaluable measure of physical function in humans and nonhuman primates alike [32, 33]. We will develop new urinary biomarkers for use in wild chimpanzee studies including biomarkers of neurodegeneration (e.g., Alzheimer’s-associated neuronal thread protein) and physical function (e.g., urinary pentosidine). Finally, we will validate and implement the study of genetic material from chimpanzee saliva samples, including bacterial and epigenetic information, by collecting and subsequently analyzing chimpanzee saliva samples onsite at Ngogo using transportable sequencing equipment (MinION Mk1C sequencer, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Oxford, UK).
 USA 2024-01-29 14:57:37 2027-01-29 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
joel lwasa njagala calls
ID: UNCST-2023-R006315
 ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF MEDICAL INTERNS ON HEALTHCARE DELIVERY AT KAWEMPE NATIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL
REFNo: SS2306ES

1.To compare hospital metrics at Kawempe National Referral Hospital when medical interns were present and when they were absent.
2.To compare patient outcomes at Kawempe National Referral Hospital when medical interns were present and when they were absent.
 Uganda 2024-01-29 14:56:29 2027-01-29 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Jacqueline Kanywa Balungi
ID:
HPV Vaccine Survey: Determining reasons as to why girls have or have not received the HPV vaccine who attend the clinic at the Baylor Uganda center of excellence.
REFNo: HS3620ES

Primary objective:
To determine reasons as to why 10- to 18-year-old girls receiving health care services at the Baylor Uganda center of excellence have or have not received the HPV vaccine using a short survey during a study period of September 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023.

Long-term goal: To use the responses of this survey to develop educational and clinical counseling programs for increasing the uptake of the HPV vaccine among 9–13-year-old girls at the Baylor Uganda clinical center of excellence.

 Uganda 2024-01-29 14:03:23 2027-01-29 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Hillary Kuteesa
ID:
PROFILES, REFERRAL PATHWAYS AND REASONS FOR REFERRAL FOR PATIENTS ADMITTED TO BUTABIKA NATIONAL REFERRAL MENTAL HOSPITAL.
REFNo: HS3412ES

1. To describe the socio-demographic characteristics of patients admitted to BNRH
2. To describe the referral pathways of patients admitted to BNRH
3. To describe the reasons for referral to BNRH

 Uganda 2024-01-25 18:41:36 2027-01-25 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Christine Nabirye
ID:
Hand hygiene interventions in Kampala's informal settlements: public health imaginaries local health realities.
REFNo: SS2188ES

1. To trace and characterise the framing of hand hygiene messaging by public health actors in Uganda since 1980.
2. To explore and describe the factors that maintain the preference for hand hygiene messaging among public health actors in Uganda.
3. To understand and compare the lived experiences informal settlement residents with the factors that maintain the preference for hand hygiene messaging by public health actors.

 Uganda 2024-01-25 18:40:37 2027-01-25 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Juliet Kyayesimira
ID:
Development of Governor’s Plum (Flacourtia indica) Herbal Formulation for the Management of Microbial Infections in Humans
REFNo: NS661ES

4. To determine the appropriate propagation method and conditions for domestication and conservation of F. indica,3. To evaluate the efficacy of formulated prototypes Flacourtia indica extracts for the management of microbial infections,2. To quantify the major phytochemicals of medicinal value in methanolic extracts of F. indica,1. To assess the indigenous uses, genetic diversity and habitat range of Flacourtia Spp. in Uganda,
 Uganda 2024-01-25 18:38:49 2027-01-25 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Nixon Niyonzima
ID: UNCST-2020-R014577
 Utility of a Liquid Biopsy in the Detection of Metastatic Breast Cancer in Uganda
REFNo: HS3277ES

To determine whether ctDNA can be used as a sensitive and specific measure of tumor burden and response to therapy among women with breast cancer undergoing treatment at UCI,To evaluate the feasibility, sensitivity, and specificity of the liquid biopsy, via ctDNA, to detect and quantify tumor-specific molecular characteristics in patients with metastatic breast cancer at UCI,
 Uganda 2024-01-25 18:37:59 2027-01-25 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Bosco Buruga Apparatus
ID:
Use of information and communication technologies by farmers to enhance the management of agricultural knowledge and information in West Nile Sub-Region of Uganda
REFNo: SS2084ES

Propose an ICT model for enhancing the management of agricultural and knowledge in developing countries using a case of West Nile sub-region, Uganda.,Identify the effects of challenges farmers face in the use of these ICTs for the management of agricultural knowledge.,Determine the challenges faced by farmers in the use of ICT in enhancing the management of agricultural knowledge.,Examine the factors influencing farmers in adopting and using ICTs for enhancing the management of agricultural knowledge in the West Nile sub-region, Uganda.,Find out agricultural stakeholders’ perception of the use of ICT in the management of agricultural knowledge.,Establish the status of managing agricultural knowledge management processes in the West Nile sub-region.,The purpose of the study is to investigate ways in which ICTs can be used to enhance the management of agricultural knowledge in West Nile sub-region of Uganda and to further propose a model to be adopted for enhancing access to agricultural knowledge by stakeholders. ,
 Uganda 2024-01-25 18:35:59 2027-01-25 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Agnes Kabajuni
ID:
Researching Green Activism: How to better protect minority and indigenous communities, Civil Society Organisations, Networks, and climate Change Defenders in East Africa
REFNo: SS2032ES

Overall Objective: to create an enabling environment for climate change defenders from the ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples to play their role in pushing for responsive climate actions, hold governments accountable and protection of communities adversely affected by climate change impacts in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Specific Objectives: a) Generate knowledge by collecting evidence that leads to a deeper understanding of key stakeholders of the challenges faced by environmental activists from the ethnic and indigenous minorities and traditional knowledge as climate change mitigation strategies.
b) Equip environmental activists from MIPs with knowledge/ideas on how to develop successful strategies to mitigate the challenges they face as part of their work and how to meaningfully blend gender and social inclusion in their work.
c) Promote greater collaboration, cross exchange and learning between duty bearers, civil society movements for inclusive decision-making processes.

Uganda 2024-01-25 18:32:52 2027-01-25 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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