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Nelson Sewankambo K
ID: UNCST-2020-R014578
THRiVE Research Enrichment: Community and Public Engagement for Enhanced Impact
REFNo: HS1586ES

1. To enable doctoral trainees to work with young people in schools who will identify their preferred ways for engagement with THRiVE research.
2. To co-create and co-design at least one engagement project at each school led by student champions in collaboration with doctoral trainees and implemented based on one or more ways identified in objective 1 above.
3. To co-design and implement at least one student-centred drama skit and/or games for engagement of students with THRiVE doctoral trainees’ research, utilizing findings from objective one.
4. To publicize the public engagement in research work to stakeholders as a way of stimulating engagement of young people and doctoral trainees in PER.

Uganda 2021-09-17 2024-09-17 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Jane  Namusisi
ID: UNCST-2021-R013619
seizure control and associated factors among children with epilepsy at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital
REFNo: HS1657ES

MAIN OBJECTIVE
To determine the seizure control status and describe its associated factors among children attending the Epilepsy Clinic at MRRH for at least six months.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES;
1. To identify the seizure types among children under care for at least six months at the Epilepsy Clinic, MRRH.
2.To determine the proportion of children with epilepsy with poor seizure control under care for at least six months at the MRRH Epilepsy clinic.
3.To identify the factors associated with poor seizure control among children under care for at least six months at the MRRH Epilepsy clinic.

Uganda 2021-09-17 2024-09-17 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Achilles Katamba
ID: UNCST-2019-R000540
Human-Centred Design and Communities of Practice to Improve Delivery of Home based Tuberculosis Contact Investigation in Uganda
REFNo: HS1720ES

General Objective: The study aims to assess the effectiveness of an enhanced intervention strategy for implementing TB contact investigation relative to usual care. Specific Objectives: 1.To compare the implementation, effectiveness, and public health impact of TB contact investigation delivered via an enhanced intervention strategy vs. the usual care strategy in a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized implementation trial. 2.To identify implementation processes and contextual factors that influence the effectiveness of the intervention strategy for TB contact investigation. 3.To compare the costs and epidemiological impact of the intervention and usual care strategies for TB contact investigation.
Uganda 2021-09-17 2024-09-17 Medical and Health Sciences Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Susan  Nabadda Ndidde
ID: UNCST-2020-R014331
SeqCOVID consortium: EAC participation – Sequencing of COVID-19 isolates from the East African Region
REFNo: HS1592ES

Epidemiological Analysis of current COVID outbreak,Capacity Building in East Africa and setting up of Prospective COVID Surveillance Platform,Diagnostic and Vaccine Development for East African COVID variants: - describe East African COVID variants and predict immunogenic epitopes and drug targets in silico, The aim of the present project is for the East African region to actively contribute data for COVID-19 drug and vaccine development, to equip the region for the time after a vaccine and drugs were developed and also to prepare for future outbreaks.,
Uganda 2021-09-16 2024-09-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Grace Nalumu
ID:
ASSESSING FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH NEONATAL DEATHS IN BUSIA DISTRICT; CASE STUDY OF MASAFU, DABANI AND BUSIA HEALTH FACILITIES
REFNo: HS1711ES

1. To assess factors associated with neonatal deaths in Busia district such that we make recommendations, according to the findings, on what measures to adopted in order to reduce neonatal mortality in the district and the country,4. To examine health facility factors associated with neonatal deaths in Busia district,3. To establish neonatal related factors associated neonatal deaths in Busia district ,2. To determine maternal factors associated with neonatal deaths in Busia district ,
Uganda 2021-09-16 2024-09-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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