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Jonathan Kayondo
ID: UNCST-2021-R008325
Target Malaria Protocol C1: Stakeholder Engagement Protocol for Target Malaria Activities in Uganda
REFNo: HS1890ES

1. Co-developing the project pathway with stakeholders directly affected by the project and ensuring that all steps of the project receive appropriate community acceptance (in addition to regulatory approval) before they are implemented. 2. Building an enabling environment in which potential beneficiaries are at the heart of the decision-making process. 3. Position genetic approaches as a potential credible complementary tool to fight malaria and creating an enabling environment for its evaluation. 4. Ensure consent/community acceptance for field entomological and insectary activities (please refer to protocols on entomological and Insectary activities). 5. Collect stakeholder knowledge and expectations to inform and improve project activity implementation.
Uganda 2022-02-28 2025-02-28 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Bruce Kirenga J
ID: UNCST-2019-R001460
Lung Cancer in East Africa in Relation to HIV-1 Infection: Epidemiological, Molecular Characterization and Imaging (LCH Study)
REFNo: HS1922ES

1. To determine the clinical epidemiology of lung cancer and its relationship to HIV-1 infection in Uganda and Tanzania. 2. To determine the molecular determinants of lung cancer in HIV infected and uninfected individuals in Uganda and Tanzania 3. To Characterize Lung Cancer in HIV infected and uninfected populations in Uganda and Tanzania using Artificial Intelligence.
Uganda 2022-02-28 2025-02-28 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Joseph Ngonzi
ID: UNCST-2019-R001579
Automated visual evaluation and geospatial mapping for cervical cancer screening optimization in sub-Saharan Africa (AVE-Map)
REFNo: HS2069ES

3. To use AVE and geospatial analysis to scale up cervical cancer screening in Uganda ,2. To determine access to cervical cancer screening and referral pathways in Uganda ,1. To validate and expand use of AVE for cervical cancer screening in SSA ,We aim to leverage and develop data science expertise at our sites to first optimize and then combine AVE-based screening by health workers at peripheral health facilities with geospatial-analysis and needs-driven assessment to inform scale-up of cervical cancer screening in Uganda ,
Uganda 2022-02-28 2025-02-28 Medical and Health Sciences Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Richard Cartland
ID:
Techno-economic Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic Mini-grids for Enhancement of Sustainable Livelihoods of Remote Communities: Case Study Uganda
REFNo: SIR97ES

iv. To develop a tool for assessing the sustainable livelihoods of communities supplied by power from renewable energy-based mini-grids,iii. To carry out economic modelling and simulation of the operation and performance of solar photovoltaic mini-grids versus other competing options ,ii. To analyze the technical operation of solar PV mini-grids in the context of developing nations,i. To analyze the development and installations of Renewable energy-based mini-grids in Uganda,To assess how sustainable livelihood of remote communities is enhanced through the use of solar PV based mini-grids and other competing options.,
Uganda 2022-02-28 2025-02-28 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
GODFREY ASIIMWE BERINDE
ID:
Public Services, Security and the Legacy of Pre-colonial States in Uganda
REFNo: SS917ES

1) examine how the legacy of pre-colonial states shapes citizens’ willingness to contribute to public services in Uganda today, focusing on crime prevention and security services
2) examine the underlying mechanisms, focusing on persistence in culture and institutions.
Uganda 2022-02-24 2025-02-24 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
DeeAnn Reeder Marie
ID: UNCST-2021-R012240
Tolerance and resistance responses of African bats to viral antigens: Immunological tradeoffs in zoonotic reservoir hosts.
REFNo: NS300ES

The overall goals of the proposed work are (1) to understand the role that infection tolerance plays in the ability of African bat species to serve as reservoir hosts for virulent zoonotic viruses (especially Ebola), and (2) identify the molecular and behavioral mechanisms that contribute to these tolerance phenotypes.


USA 2022-02-24 2025-02-24 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Eliot Atekwana Anong
ID:
Dry Rifting in the Albertine-Rhino graben, Uganda (DRIAR)
REFNo: NS322ES

Our project objectives are to (1) map the lithospheric and mantle structure below segments of the rift in the northern Western Branch, (2) map magma melt depth, thickness and spatial distribution along the rift, (3) map the rift and fault architecture and determine their relationship to rifting, (4) determine fault communication with deep magma sources via volatiles and gas chemistries, (5) provide constraints on surface motions and rift opening rates from GPS measurements, and (6) test the three hypotheses with numerical models. During this project we will:
1. Use magnetotellurics (MT), gravity and passive source seismology to determine variations in lithospheric thickness, mantle-flow or frozen lithospheric anisotropy, and to assess the presence or absence of melt at depth.
2. Use magnetics, gravity, and seismology to determine the thermal structure and thickness of the crust beneath the rift zone.
3. Constrain surface motions with new GNSS observations.
4. Collect geomorphic samples for Quaternary geochronology for landforms cut and offset by the rift-bounding faults to determine their fault slip rates.
5. Use industry seismic reflection data acquired over the Albertine-Rhino graben to investigate fault evolution and strain migration through time.
6. Conduct field observations to examine the geometry and kinematics of rift related structures for the Albertine-Rhino Graben and Precambrian structures to evaluate the possible presence of a Precambrian suture zone that was reactivated during rift evolution.
7. Use the geochemistry of hot springs and measurements of magmatic gas fluxes along the border faults to establish the presence or absence of shallow magma chambers and the presence of magmatic volatiles-assisted faulting, while also quantifying variability of tectonic CO2 flux to the atmosphere from the northern Western Branch of EARS
8. Incorporate the above observations into a geodynamic model that test hypotheses about the role of melts beneath magma-poor rifts and how variations in lithospheric thickness and asthenospheric flow or the properties of the lithosphere relate to strain localization.
The different rift basins of the northern segment of the Western Branch of EARS exhibit distinct geomorphological features from south to north that are probably controlled by processes operating in the asthenosphere and lithosphere. Thus, a field experiment designed to investigate the along axis variability of the lithosphere and upper mantle structure along this entire segment from Lake Edward in the south to the Rhino graben in the north and its termination against the Aswa Shear Zone will provide critical insights on geodynamic processes operating in the asthenosphere, lithosphere, and at the surface which drive magma poor rifting.
USA 2022-02-24 2025-02-24 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Hasifah Namatovu Kasujja
ID:
A Real-time Application for Screening Symptoms of Perinatal Depression among Expectant and Postnatal Mothers. (RAPID)
REFNo: SIR95ES

Overall Study Objective: Developing a real-time application to screen perinatal depression will be achieved through three specific aims:
i) Understanding perinatal depression issues among women and elicit requirements for model building
ii) Co-design and implement a low-cost real time application for perinatal depression (RAPID)
iii) Evaluate and deploy RAPID for usability and efficacy

Uganda 2022-02-24 2025-02-24 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Pooja Chitneni
ID: UNCST-2021-R012955
The adaptation and validation of an HIV disclosure measurement tool in Uganda
REFNo: HS1872ES

Aim 1: Explore how and why heterosexual men and women disclose HIV to sexual partners. We will purposively sample up to 40 PLWH stratified approximately equally by reported prior HIV disclosure to sexual partner(s) and gender to participate in qualitative in-depth interviews. Interviews will focus on HIV disclosure beliefs, intentions, and behaviors with an emphasis on gender norms, incomplete disclosure, HIV co-morbidities (e.g., STIs), and disclosure preferences. ,
USA 2022-02-23 2025-02-23 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Leonard Atuhaire K.
ID:
Development of a Life Table for Mortality Assessment in Uganda
REFNo: SS1143ES

3. Construct a pilot life table for Uganda.,2. Develop cause – of – death specific life tables.,1. Estimate age specific mortality rates for males and females in Uganda,The main objective is to generate a pilot life table for Uganda.,
Uganda 2022-02-22 2025-02-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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