Laura Bogart
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Game Changers: A Pilot Intervention to Empower HIV Clients as Prevention Advocates in Uganda
REFNo: HS32ES
1) Use qualitative focus group research to assess the feasibility and acceptability of implementing an HIV prevention advocacy intervention with PLHA in HIV care, who will be trained to be advocates of HIV protective behaviours within their social networks.\r\n2) Develop an intervention based on the focus group data and community advisory board and IDI staff input. \r\n\r\nNote: the pilot intervention will be tested in a small randomized controlled trial after it is developed. An amended IRB application will be submitted for the pilot intervention test.\r\n
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USA |
2017-02-21 |
2020-02-21 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Mahsa Abassi
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Utilization of SMS Messaging Services to Improve Retention in Care of HIV-Infected Individuals in Uganda Short Title: SMS-2-Retain (S2R)
REFNo: SS62ES
The objective of the study is to determine if mobile health (mHealth) technology (text/voice-messaging services) is an effective method of improving retention in care for newly diagnosed HIV-infected individuals enrolling into care, as compared to standard of care. This is a pilot, non-blinded, randomized trial of mobile health implementation into routine HIV care. This pilot trial will be focusing on 1) two-week retention in care of all HIV-infected participants from enrollment and followed by 2) participants who have been found to have cryptococcal antigenemia, a population of participants most at risk for early morbidity and mortality.
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USA |
2017-03-07 |
2020-03-07 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Sarah Bridge
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Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Meningitis Registry
REFNo: HS61ES
Our primary goal is to collect clinical, laboratory, demographic, geographic and economic data in real-time on Ugandan meningitis patients and to compile this information into a meningitis registry. Our central hypothesis is that data extracted from this registry can be used to guide meningitis treatment and prevention, improve resource allocation, facilitate treatment distribution networks, improve global data on meningitis and inform health care policy in Uganda and other similar countries in the meningitis belt.
Aim 1: To use the FilmArray ME assay and GenExpert Ultra assays, in conjunction with existing CSF testing, to diagnose etiologies of meningitis in children and adults at MRRH.
-We hypothesize that the use of FilmArray ME and GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra assays at MRRH will allow better characterization of meningitis epidemiology in Uganda and streamline care decisions through the creation of a diagnostic algorithm for meningitis patients.
Aim 2: To gather population-based epidemiologic data on meningitis in Mbarara, Uganda, in a centralized meningitis registry.
-We hypothesize that creation of a meningitis registry will guide meningitis treatment and prevention, improve resource allocation, facilitate treatment distribution networks, improve global data on meningitis and inform health care policy in Uganda.
Aim 3: To gather population based data on the economic impact of meningitis and its complications through cost questionnaires to better characterize the financial burden of meningitis to patients in resource-limited settings.
-We hypothesize that the cost burden to patients with meningitis is significant and that a cost-effective analysis will lead to informed recommendations to guide health policy in Uganda.
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USA |
2017-06-13 |
2020-06-13 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Travis Lybbert
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Innovation & Intellectual Property Policy in the Ugandan Agri-Food Sector: Insights from coffee seed supply chains and tropical fruit processing
REFNo: A16ES
1. To understand the role of innovation and intellectual property (IP) in the Ugandan agricultural sector
2. To identify business, technical, institutional, and policy constraints that limit or otherwise dilute the impact of agricultural R&D, innovation and technology diffusion in the Ugandan agricultural sector
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USA |
2017-06-19 |
2020-06-19 |
Agricultural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Nelson TING
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Genetic identity of elephant migrants across a forest-savanna mosaic of protected areas in Western Uganda
REFNo: NS72ES
To generate baseline knowledge of elephant movement, habitat use, and population size in and among the forested protected areas of western Uganda.
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USA |
2018-10-30 |
2021-10-30 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Hayley Dieckmann
ID:
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Stress responses of African lions (Panthera leo) in relation to proximity of ongoing fires and fire scars in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
REFNo: NS26ES
To understand stress factors of lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park in order to reduce stressful events and promote coexistence of humans and lions within the park.
To determine a correlation between African lions’ stress level and their proximity to ongoing fires and fire scars within Queen Elizabeth National park.
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USA |
2017-08-16 |
2020-08-16 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Tiffany Atkinson Aria
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Testing the role of turbidity and diet on the reproductive traits in an African cichlid fish (Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae)
REFNo: NS16ES
The goal of the proposed research is to better understand the influence of turbidity and diet on the behavior and development of reproductive traits in an African cichlid fish (Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae).
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USA |
2017-06-06 |
2020-06-06 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Adam Moeller
ID:
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A History of Moral Education in Uganda: Tracing Social Values relating to Gender and Sexuality
REFNo: SS82ES
In my research, I seek to understand a history of moral thought in Uganda, by looking at ideas about gender and sexuality, in order to put current contentious issues in their historical context. This context is inextricably linked to the process of national and regional identity making in Uganda, and hence of great importance in understanding society and post-colonial social and political development.
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USA |
2017-05-30 |
2020-05-30 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Payal Chakraborty
ID:
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Characterizing Treatment/Management and Patient Outcomes of Epilepsy in Uganda: A Prospective Cohort Study
REFNo: HS99ES
1. Characterize management of epilepsy in Mulago National Referral Hospital (MNRH), Butabika National Mental Hospital (BNMH), and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH).
1a. To assess treatment options available for epilepsy patients by site (MNRH, BNMH, and MRRH).
1b. To assess knowledge, attitudes, and other factors associated with treatment barriers.
2. Characterize treatment outcomes in hospital-based epilepsy care, specifically at MNRH, BNMH, and MRRH.
2a. To determine etiological risk factors and common seizure patterns associated with epilepsy that present in patients at study sites.
2b. To determine the seizure severity, quality of life, and seizure outcomes among patients with epilepsy.
2c. To determine the adherence levels and factors associated with non-adherence of anti-epileptic drugs.
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USA |
2018-02-21 |
2021-02-21 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Phoebe Donnelly
ID:
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Gendered Decisions and Dynamics in Eastern Africa
REFNo: SS109ES
This research is for my PhD dissertation and potentially a book or articles. My central research question asks how the attitudes and behavior of non-state armed organizations (NSAOs) towards women and girls relate to the NSAO’s broad strategy. My framework will examine four aspects of gendered strategy: 1) the role women and girls fill within NSAOs; 2) whether NSAOs use forced marriage or other regulations of relationships as a strategy; 3) how the treatment of civilian women and girls, specifically the use of gender-based violence (GBV), relates to the objectives of the NSAO; and 4) how these organizations discuss gender in their external communications. My two case studies are al-Shabaab formed in Somalia and the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
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USA |
2017-12-20 |
2020-12-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Corrie Decker
ID:
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Debating Childhood and Maturating in Colonial East Africa
REFNo: SS91ES
Between 1900 and 1960, missionaries, colonial officials, anthropologists, chiefs, elders, educated elites, and cultural nationalists in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (at the time British colonial territories) came into conflict over whether or not to eradicate certain African customs governing a child’s maturation into adulthood. Demands to ban African customs are still heard in the international media today. Why were these debates so controversial at the time and why do they continue to invoke intense discord? I argue that these issues sparked such conflict because they dealt with differing opinions about how to manage a child’s maturation into adulthood. I investigate debates about rites of passage, puberty, adolescence, marriage, and definitions of the child culturally and legally in colonial East Africa. Many different viewpoints and approaches informed these debates, but they became polarized around two positions: the protection of the presumed innocent child in the name of universal rights, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the preservation of cultural practices that fostered the child’s maturation toward normative adulthood. Scholars have pointed out that this struggle between universal human rights and culture was one that played out within the politics of colonialism and neocolonialism (Babatunde 1998; Hodgson 2011). These discourses portrayed the child as either a helpless creature in need of saving or a future productive and reproductive member of society. These debates shifted toward the end of the colonial era (1960s) as African teenagers’ greater independence became a source of anxiety as daunting as African nationalists’ demand for the end of colonialism (Burton and Charton-Bigot 2010; Ivaska 2011). This project spans the former British colonies of Uganda (1894-1962), Kenya (1895-1963), Zanzibar (1890-1963), and Tanganyika (1916-1961). I focus on the colonial era in order to show how East African customs became part of an international intellectual debate about child development and maturation.
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USA |
2017-08-16 |
2020-08-16 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Vitaliano Cama
ID:
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Evaluation of the Diagnostic Tests in Areas Hypoendemic for Onchocerciasis –Uganda
REFNo: HS90ES
) Evaluate the distribution of anti-OV-16 antibody and other markers of O. volvulus infection in multiple age groups.
Data from this study may allow to determine the force of infection (rate at which susceptible individuals acquire an infection) using catalytic models
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USA |
2018-02-21 |
2021-02-21 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Joanne Corbin Nancy
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Effects of armed conflict and displacement on men's socio-cultural and economic roles in northern Uganda
REFNo: SS119ES
• To examine the impact of armed conflict and internal displacement on men’s socio-cultural and economic roles in Northern Uganda.
• To examine this phenomenon from subjective experiences.
• To explore the adaptations that men have made to deal with any socio-cultural and economic impacts from armed conflict and internal displacement.
• To disseminate the findings from this study in appropriate venues as recommended by Ugandan colleagues and produce an article on the results of this research.
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USA |
2018-03-14 |
2021-03-14 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Nadine Sanchez
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Addressing Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda
REFNo: HS108ES
The main objective of this study is to identify cultural and practical challenges of seeking epilepsy care in Uganda. Outcomes from this study can inform specific targets of future interventions, and is imperative for working towards improving the provision of epilepsy care.
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USA |
2018-09-13 |
2021-09-13 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Heather Brown
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Epidemiology of Traumatic Injuries in Masindi, Uganda
REFNo: HS115ES
The purpose of this study is to characterize the incidence, patterns, and severity of injury among patients presenting to MKMC.
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USA |
2017-11-20 |
2020-11-20 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Anna Stadelman Michelle
ID:
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Assessing Lung Function and Quality of Life in Ugandans after Completion of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment (ALFU-MDR TB)
REFNo: HS122ES
To evaluate the impact of MDR TB and its treatment on pulmonary
function in survivors of MDR TB.
To establish the impact of MDR TB and its treatment on the quality of life
of MDR TB survivors.
To assess the effect of HIV and MDR TB co-infection on pulmonary
function in MDR TB survivors.
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USA |
2018-02-13 |
2021-02-13 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Pavel Reppo Aleksandrovich
ID:
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Implementing the MANAS trial in Uganda (MAN U) - The Pilot Phase
REFNo: HS134ES
Research Question & Specific Objectives
Question: How will implementing a trained Community Health Worker (CHW)-led Collaborative Stepped Care Intervention (CSCI) lead to an improvement in recovery from depression among patients within general outpatient attending public primary care facilities in Uganda?
Aim 1: To determine whether treatment from trained CHWs leads to 1) patient recovery from MDD as defined by the DSM-IV at 6 months, and 2) the proportion of patients with above threshold scores (PHQ-9 score of ≥10). Hypothesis: Constituents of collaborative care interventions predicted a favorable outcome.
Aim 2: To increase awareness of CHW-led, collaborative stepped care as a viable option of treatment for depression among trainees, study participants, the community and stakeholders. Relevance: Community views and input are essential to inform the development of a culturally appropriate training curriculum for CHWs.
Aim 3: To determine the outcome of the CHW training on retention of knowledge and skills in competencies required to deliver the stepped care intervention among trainees after the training. Hypothesis: Trained CHWs will demonstrate increased level of knowledge and skills in competencies required to deliver collaborative stepped care after the training.
Aim 4: To determine the perceptions of CHWs, study participants, the community and stakeholders towards the process of integrating CHW-led, collaborative stepped care into community based mental healthcare. Relevance: There is a need to understand the views of participants and stakeholders pre and post to determine project efficacy.
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USA |
2017-10-31 |
2020-10-31 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Matthew Sebastian Ryan
ID:
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Youth, Humanitarianism, Security, and the Future in Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS131ES
The objective of this research is to better understand how the problematic positioning of young people in post-conflict settings affects prospects for peace-building as well as social integration more broadly. In so doing, it seeks to contribute to knowledge about how humanitarianism transforms in the aftermath of war and how young people navigate some of the myriad interventions which follow. In addition, it takes care to consider these concerns from the perspective of young people themselves, paying close attention to their own attempts to generate a livelihood in their contemporary lives.
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USA |
2017-12-20 |
2020-12-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Yoanna Pumpalova
ID:
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Symptom Profile Among Women in Uganda with Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Breast Cancer and Their Understanding of the Role of Palliative Chemotherapy
REFNo: HS141ES
The proposed study will enroll patients with newly diagnosed metastatic breast cancer who present to the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI)/Mulago breast cancer clinics and the UCI Private ward/Mulago Solid Tumor ward and pose the following research questions:
1) What are these patients’ dominant symptoms and how are they being addressed?
2) What is the patients’ understanding of the goal of chemotherapy in their disease?
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USA |
2017-11-23 |
2020-11-23 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Alicia Rich Michelle
ID:
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Chimpanzee Highways: Gene Flow and Connectivity at Itwara Forest Reserve
REFNo: NS36ES
This study will focus on a chimpanzee metapopulation, which likely spans several protected areas in western Uganda by utilizing Itwara Forest Reserve (hereafter ‘Itwara’) as a connective corridor. Contrasting environments characterize at least two of those areas; closed-forest habitat dominates Itwara Forest Reserve (Howard 1991), while closely neighboring Toro-Semliki is usually described as an “open habitat,†(Hunt and McGrew 2002). Initial observations suggest that chimpanzees utilize a connective corridor of ~4 km between those two reserves, not only for rare dispersal events, but also for regular ranging within a single community’s territory (Rich et al. in prep). Here we are proposing to test whether chimpanzees do use a connective corridor between the two reserves, where the chimpanzee-selected corridor is, and what motivates travel through it (i.e. dispersal, foraging, etc.). We will examine the evolutionary and conservation-based implications of corridor-use by Toro-Semliki/Itwara chimpanzees and lay the groundwork for long term, multi-species connectivity research in and around Itwara Forest Reserve using indirect methods. If chimpanzees are using this corridor, then we will expand our research to examine other potential connective corridors that extend from Itwara Forest Reserve into other protected areas such as Kibale National Park and Muhangi Forest Reserve.
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USA |
2018-02-21 |
2021-02-21 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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