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Christina Bergey Marie
ID: UNCST-2020-R014338
 Genetic survey of bloodborne pathogens and investigation of malaria response in sanctuary chimpanzees
REFNo: NS139ES

Our proposed study has three main objectives:

1. To determine which blood-borne pathogens sanctuary chimpanzees carry, with a particular interest in those which can be transmitted from human to chimpanzee (anthroponoses) and vice versa (zoonoses);

2. To diagnose malaria infection in sanctuary chimpanzees and determine which malaria parasite species are present, with a particular interest in human malaria that may be infecting the chimpanzees; and

3. To describe the genetic mechanisms underlying the chimpanzee immune system response to malaria, and contrast this with that of humans.
 USA 2021-07-13 2024-07-13 Natural Sciences Non-degree Award
Anthony  Fuller
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Assessment of Accuracy, Precision, and Feasibility of a Handheld Near-Infrared Light Device (InfraScanner 2000â„¢) in Detecting Subdural and Epidural Hematomas in Patients Admitted to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital
REFNo: HS1010ES

Aim 1: Determine whether the InfraScanner 2000â„¢ detects epidural and/or subdural hematomas with adequate precision relative to CT scans to be used as a diagnostic tool for epidural and/or subdural hematomas.

Aim 2: Use these findings to inform the feasibility of conducting a future trial in which the InfraScanner 2000â„¢ is used as a stand-alone diagnostic tool for intracranial hematomas, and therein, to determine candidacy for decompressive craniotomies in patients who suffer TBIs in places where CT scans are not available.
 USA 2021-07-13 2024-07-13 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Vittorio Bassi
ID:
Covid-19 and the value of relationships in informal economies
REFNo: SS633ES

The overall goal of the study is to implement two exploratory phone surveys of a representative sample of Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs) and their employees in Uganda. The survey is designed to document challenges firms are facing in investing and hiring workers during the covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the first phone survey will also embed a nudging experiment aimed at helping workers search for jobs and regain employment in the wake of the pandemic. This is an urgent study that forms a continued commitment of the researchers under BRAC Uganda partnership with Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives under Directorate of Micro and Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to provide insights and learning on how the covid-19 shock has affected firm owners and employees’ relationships during the lockdown.
 Italy 2021-07-13 2024-07-13 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Ismay Milford Milford
ID:
The ‘Information Sector’ in East Africa, 1950s-70s: The professionalisation of journalism, broadcasting and information officers
REFNo: SS730ES

This project is a history of the ‘information sector’ as it emerged in dialogue with global patterns over the period of decolonisation in East Africa (c. 1950s-70s). I understand information not as a given technology inevitable to the language of the developmentalist state in mid-twentieth century Africa, but as a culturally constructed and moulded idea through which we can access connections that East African people of various ‘information professions’ forged with the wider world. This is in some sense a pre-history of the global debates around information that resulted in the call for a ‘New World Information and Communication Order’ in the 1970s. It argues that East Africa played an important role in the disciplinary shift from ‘information science’ to ‘mass communication’, and in the understandings of knowledge production that informed postcolonial theory.
UK 2021-07-13 2024-07-13 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Pierre ABOMO
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Strengthening national capacity for tsetse control in Uganda
REFNo: SS725ES

1) Conduct semi-structured interviews with key personnel at COCTU and the District level to fully understand the current level of execution of the action plan for strengthening the capacity to for implementing tsetse control in Uganda

2) Conduct participatory workshops at COCTU and the District level to collaboratively assess the progress towards the establishment of a stronger and independent tsetse control system in Uganda (based on findings from objective 1).
UK 2021-07-13 2024-07-13 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
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