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Tumwesigye Robert
ID: UNCST-2025-R020806
 BIOETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL CARE SERVICE DELIVERY DURING NATURE – INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS: A CASE OF FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES IN KASESE DISTRICT
REFNo: NS1072ES

1. To identify bioethical issues faced in provision of medical care services during episodes of floods and landslides in Kasese District.
2. To identify strategies for addressing the ethical issues in provision of medical care services during floods and landslide in Kasese District.

Uganda 2026-02-12 12:56:47 2029-02-12 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
SEMBATYA  HENRY
ID: UNCST-2024-R003576
 Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards infection control among healthcare workers at Kayunga Regional Referral Hospital.
REFNo: HS6374ES

To assess risk perceptions on hospital acquired infections among health workers at Kayunga regional referral hospital.
2. To identify current modalities to infection prevention and control by health workers at Kayunga regional referral hospital.
3. To identify barriers and facilitators to the implementation of infection prevention and control measures at Kayunga regional referral hospital.
 Uganda 2026-02-12 12:52:38 2029-02-12 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Kija Malale
ID: UNCST-2024-R001957
 PILOT TESTING AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE SWAHILI CANCER HEALTH LITERACY TEST TO CANCER SURVIVORS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS IN SWAHILI-SPEAKING AFRICAN COUNTRIES
REFNo: HS6340ES

1. Pilot the Swahili Cancer Health Literacy Test to cancer survivors and their caregivers attending a clinic at Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) in Tanzania
2. Validate the Swahili Cancer Health Literacy Test to cancer survivors and their caregivers in Swahili-speaking African countries

 Tanzania 2026-02-12 12:51:27 2029-02-12 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Casim Tolo Umba
ID: UNCST-2021-R012658
 Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic Diseases phase II
REFNo: NS1012ES

1. Increased research capacity and expertise of the local research institutes to better understand, predict and prevent disease transmission dynamics through innovative research
2. Communities in Uganda are better protected from VBDs through the design of bottom-up interventions and the increased uptake of preventive measures through effective communication and educational school programs
3. Local health districts are enforced through the adoption of a functional citizen Scientist (CS) network that can monitor disease vectors and mobilise and inform communities
4. Local and national ministries are better informed on the distribution of disease vectors through data generated by citizen scientists and ATRAP II, and on the sustainability of local interventions towards vector control, as a basis for evidence-based policy implementation.
 Uganda 2026-02-12 12:50:07 2029-02-12 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Tenywa Kawanguzi Derick
ID: UNCST-2025-R017225
 DETERMINANTS OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS’ VULNERABILITY: A CONFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN ACHOLI SUB-REGION, NORTHERN UGANDA
REFNo: SS4234ES

1. To examine the local perceptions about climate change among smallholder farmers in Northern Uganda.
2. To determine the main sources of smallholder farmers’ vulnerability in Northern Uganda.
3. To develop a conceptual model for smallholder farmers’ vulnerability in Northern Uganda.
4. To develop a theory of change for guiding interventions aimed at reducing smallholder farmers’ vulnerability in Northern Uganda.
 Uganda 2026-02-12 12:42:31 2029-02-12 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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