Sarah Walker
ID:
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The regional dynamics of deforestation. Evidence from Kenya and Uganda
REFNo: SS1485ES
Given the pervasiveness of insecure land tenure institutions around the developing world, and the role of historical institutions in shaping preferences and behavior, it is important to understand how the design of PES programs may interact with historical land tenure structures. In this project, we design a willingness to accept experiment, and framed field experiment, across three regions of Uganda to answer the following questions:
1. What is the optimal design of an avoided deforestation PES program in Uganda?
2. How do land tenure institutions impact the design of an avoided PES program in Uganda?
3. How does the security of land tenure impact deforestation behavior and trust in Uganda?
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USA |
2022-12-05 12:03:29 |
2025-12-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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James Hintson
ID: UNCST-2022-R010009
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Service Delivery and Public Infrastructure in Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS1476ES
The primary objective of the study is to describe and explain increases in service delivery, public infrastructure, and state-society interactions in Northern Uganda over time. The secondary objectives are to document community leaders’ satisfaction with the expansion of service delivery and public infrastructure construction, and to validate a separately collected dataset on public infrastructure throughout sub-Saharan Africa over time, as derived from satellite imagery.
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USA |
2022-10-19 10:58:32 |
2025-10-19 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Pooja Chitneni
ID: UNCST-2021-R012955
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Development and assessment of an HIV disclosure intervention for men in Uganda - Aim 1
REFNo: HS2682ES
Aim 1. Identify the unique HIV disclosure needs and preferences among MWH to support HIV disclosure. ,
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USA |
2023-04-03 20:55:31 |
2026-04-03 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Peter Ferrarone Timothy
ID:
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Helping nurses overcome structural drivers of absenteeism in Uganda: A survey and discrete choice experiment
REFNo: HS2529ES
4.2 Objectives and research questions
1. To explore factors internal to the Ugandan health care sector that may be leading nurses to be absent from work
a) What job characteristics or conditions of employment are most influential in encouraging nurses / managers / midwives to not attend work?
b) Are there non-monetary job characteristics that are particularly important to nurses?
c) Are there substantial differences between nurses / managers / midwives that lead to differences in attendance and are there incentives to address these differences?
d) If so, does the effectiveness of interventions to overcome absenteeism vary according to these differences between nurses / managers / midwives?
e) Are there incentives encouraging nurses to be absent across the system and do these affect different groups of nurses / managers / midwives differently?
f) What effect, if any, does employment setting (urban versus rural) have on absenteeism and an individual’s decision to be absent?
2. To explore factors external to the Ugandan health care sector that may be leading nurses to be absent from work
a) What individual, social, structural, and contextual factors are most influential in encouraging nurses / managers / midwives not to attend work?
b) How do health worker characteristics influence service provider preferences in relation to incentives and other potential policy interventions to overcome absenteeism?
c) Are there substantial differences between nurses / managers / midwives that lead to differences in attendance and are there incentives to address these differences?
d) Does the effectiveness of interventions to overcome absenteeism vary according to these differences between nurses / managers / midwives?
e) Are there incentives encouraging nurses to be absent across the system and do these affect different groups of nurses / managers / midwives differently?
f) How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation affect attendance at work?
g) What do health workers believe and perceive (from personal experience of word-of-mouth) is currently being done to combat absenteeism and what do they believe will be the most feasible policy solutions in the future?
3. To identify feasible policy interventions that are most likely to be taken up and impact behaviour
a) What are the experiences and perceptions of health care service providers of monetary and non-monetary incentives and other factors affecting service provider motivation and performance to inform the design of policy interventions to overcome absenteeism and ensure the delivery of quality health care services in Uganda?
b) Are there characteristics of health facilities that influence service provider preferences in relation to incentives and other potential policy interventions to overcome absenteeism?
c) What proportion of health workers would choose to attend work rather than be absent if presented with specific (hypothetical) job characteristics? How does this vary across the population?
d) What trade-offs, if any, are nurses willing to make between these attributes to identify the optimal combination of these factors for packages of policy interventions that can be implemented in light of local resource constraints to align the incentives facing frontline health care providers especially in rural settings to address the issue of absenteeism?
e) Are nurses / managers / midwives willing to trade between “carrot” and “stick” interventions to reduce absenteeism?
f) Is salary the main incentive? Are there non-monetary incentives that are likely to have an impact on nurse absenteeism?
g) What is the range of feasible and affordable policy interventions that are likely to be effective in addressing health worker absenteeism?
h) Is changing individual or group incentives likely to lead to less absenteeism?
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USA |
2022-12-14 14:10:49 |
2025-12-14 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Monica Swahn H
ID: UNCST-2021-R012004
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The Onward Project On Well-being and Adversity (“TOPOWA”):
Pilot Study of Wearables
REFNo: SS1560ES
The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using consumer-grade wearable wrist devices to assess sleep and activity space of adolescent girls and young women in slum communities in Kampala, Uganda. This objective will be answered through wearables wrist devices, daily diaries, focus groups discussions and a survey to collect the experiences of AGYW who are 18-24 years of age.
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USA |
2022-12-23 18:08:19 |
2025-12-23 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Shannon McMorrow
ID:
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Photovoice assessment of integration, health, and healthcare experiences of urban Congolese refugee women in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: HS2655ES
To generate in-depth, contextual evidence to inform policy and program improvements for Congolese refugee women in Kampala to prevent further marginaliation and negative health outcomes.
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USA |
2023-02-06 17:19:40 |
2026-02-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Casey Crow Lynn
ID:
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Exploring Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Amongst Refugees with Disabilities in Uganda
REFNo: SS1611ES
4. To identify barriers and facilitators to accessing SRHR-related services with the aim of improving uptake and informing future service provision.,3. To explore how disability, migration, and access to sexual and reproductive health influence lived experience from micro (individual, family, intimate relationships), to meso (school, community, NGOs, healthcare), to macro (societal, policy) levels. ,2. To describe how refugees with disabilities navigate and resist violence, stigma, and marginalisation of their sexual and reproductive health and rights.,1. To explore the ways disability and migration interact in the process of seeking sexual and reproductive health services.,To explore the SRHR-related lives, needs, contexts, and access to services amongst refugees with disabilities in Uganda.,
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USA |
2023-02-14 17:15:17 |
2026-02-14 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Michael Galvin
ID:
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Improving HIV Outcomes through Collaborative Mental Health Interventions
REFNo: SS1642ES
To assess the perspectives of traditional and faith healers and biomedical mental health professionals on mental health treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS who have mental illness using a qualitative approach. We will interview 5-10 traditional healers and 5-10 faith healers over 2-4 months in early 2023. They will be recruited from the local area based on their experience working with people with HIV/AIDS and mental illness. These interviews will aid in characterizing the different conceptions of mental illness etiology and treatment strategies among both traditional healers in the African tradition and faith healers/pastors in the Christian tradition, and examine if collaboration between traditional and faith healers, and biomedical service providers can be developed to best serve people living with HIV/AIDS and improve health outcomes.,Objective 1b - To determine the characteristics of people living with HIV/AIDS and mental illness using a quantitative approach. We will collect cross sectional data on this population regarding of mental illness and HIV disease severity and duration, sociodemographics, and traditional and biomedical care history.,Objective 1a – To examine the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS with mental illness in the Psychiatric Unit at Mbarara Hospital and traditional healer clinics using a qualitative approach. We will interview 15-25 patients living with HIV/AIDS and mental illness over 2-4 months in early 2023. They will be recruited from the psychiatric unit at Mbarara hospital. By interviewing mental health patients living with HIV, we can better understand how they view their illness, how local beliefs inform mental health care utilization, as well as their pathway to care and ultimately treatment outcomes.,To develop an intervention in which biomedical professionals collaborate with local traditional and faith healers to provide mental health services which will ultimately improve viral suppression, increase longevity, and reduce preventable morbidity and mortality.
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USA |
2023-04-26 11:03:04 |
2026-04-26 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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John Lower Whitney
ID:
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Strategies and mechanisms of collective inter-group aggression and in-group defense among wild eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Kibale National Park, Uganda
REFNo: NS496ES
The objectives of this doctoral dissertation project are to better elucidate the group-level, individual, and physiological mechanisms exhibited by wild eastern chimpanzees to achieve a risky form of collective action, namely participation and contribution in lethal aggression between territorially distinct chimpanzee communities. I will study the Kanyawara community of wild eastern chimpanzees to answer these questions of interest.
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USA |
2023-06-27 19:31:41 |
2026-06-27 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Min Ma
ID:
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A study to examine outcomes of Seed Global Health’s partnerships with medical education and training institutions in Uganda and Zambia
REFNo: HS2767ES
The specific objectives of this study are to:
1. Examine the extent to which Seed’s partnership with the three institutions has contributed to the four outcome domains Seed considers to be the crux of its work:
a. Improved patient outcomes;
b. Improved clinical competence among medical students and medical faculty/preceptors. Specifically, acquisition or improvement of knowledge, confidence in clinical skills competencies and demonstration of clinical skills [students]; and ability to train and mentor students [faculty/preceptors];
c. Absorption and retention of graduates into the national health workforce (within their field of practice); and
d. Improved clinical application, in particular, clinician’s ability to apply acquired knowledge and skills gained from education/training into the clinical setting .
2. Identify any unanticipated outcomes (positive or negative) that have resulted from Seed’s partnership with the three institutions.
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USA |
2023-06-13 11:29:03 |
2026-06-13 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Pooja Chitneni
ID: UNCST-2021-R012955
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Developing an STI partner notification services delivery intervention in southwestern, rural Uganda.
REFNo: HS2720ES
Explore facilitators and barriers to task-shifting delivery models for STI partner notification among healthcare workers, administrators, and potential patients. Also to develop a novel STI partner notification services delivery intervention for Uganda and similar settings.
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USA |
2023-03-09 22:41:48 |
2026-03-09 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Carolyn Pelnik
ID:
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School Management and Re-Enrolling Dropouts: Experimental Evidence from Schools in Rural Uganda
REFNo: SS1656ES
Which version of the program is more cost-effective in terms of gains to student learning: an intervention that assigns highly qualified university graduates to partner with community members to implement enrollment and remedial education activities, or an intervention where enrollment and remedial education activities are executed by community members alone? ,What is the effect of a school management intervention targeted towards the head teacher on school inputs (administrator time use and other measures of school functionality such as teacher attendance) and outputs (enrollment and learning, as measured by literacy and numeracy test scores)?,
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USA |
2023-03-09 23:39:42 |
2026-03-09 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Elizabeth (Betsy) Ness-Edelstein Ann
ID:
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Cooperative Development Program Evaluation
REFNo: SS1664ES
Assess how the specific work of Health Partners in Uganda is contributing to the overall program objectives,● Contribute to the evidence base on effective cooperative development approaches.,● Identify the assumptions or gaps in the project’s design or management approach to help inform a new project design,● Illuminate ways in which the entire project is making progress toward the stated Project Purpose or not,
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USA |
2023-03-21 3:04:41 |
2026-03-21 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Jennifer Kealy
ID:
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Community Engagement in Paediatric Biobanking Governance in Uganda.
REFNo: SS1651ES
The aim of this study is to provide IARC and the Ugandan Government with actionable recommendations concerning the development of paediatric biobanking guidelines. The primary objective is to identify the key ethical issues/concerns for researchers, laboratory staff, and health authorities in Uganda, specifically related to public trust in biobanking, and how trust/ trustworthiness could be addressed in paediatric biobanking governance as well as how the community might be engaged.
• Does it hold true that trust/ trustworthiness is contextual and that effectively would preclude any harmonisation of guidelines for biobanking? Or is there any common ground on which to build global /international guidelines,
• What are the gaps in biobanking in Uganda, particularly with respect to paediatric biobanking and,
• How can Uganda create paediatric biobanking guidelines that reflect the needs identified by communities and what would this look like, and,
• How can biobanks show they are trustworthy through their governance and what does that look like to Uganda? Is it sufficient to be transparent and accountable or are other cultural/economic/religious/aspects that parents consider in their assessment of trust in a biobank?
• How can ethical considerations related to biobank governance be addressed in an inclusive, collaborative and deliberative manner
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USA |
2023-03-16 12:41:09 |
2026-03-16 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Jennifer Verdolin
ID:
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Establishing a Long-Term Behavioral and Ecological Monitoring Research Program in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
REFNo: NS500ES
1) Understand the factors contributing to within and between group variability in parasite infection and transmission; 2) Characterize the diet of mountain gorillas across different habitats in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park; 3) Explore habitat use and spatial dynamics of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park; 4) Collaborate with UWA to yield insights critical for the protection and management of mountain gorillas and other species in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park; 5) Characterize the biodiversity of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, including genomics of multiple species using opportunistically collected fecal samples. These species include but would not be limited to forest elephants and pangolins.
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USA |
2023-03-16 12:39:44 |
2026-03-16 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Jesse Rudy Lynn
ID: UNCST-2023-R008208
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Prevalence of property Grabbing among widows in Uganda
REFNo: SS1677ES
To establish the total number of people protected in the different project areas districts as a result of Redeem’s program interventions.,
1)To understand the indirect consequences of attempted and successful land/property grabbing for widows and orphans in the aftermath of the events,
2)To ascertain the criminal, violent or other means used by perpetrators to victimize widows and orphans through grabbing property or land in Uganda.,
3)To determine the prevalence of property grabbing from widows in targeted areas of Uganda,
4)To measure the annual burden of property grabbing in the selected case work areas ,
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USA |
2023-04-03 15:40:08 |
2026-04-03 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Vesall Nourani
ID: UNCST-2022-R009221
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Impact of on-demand irrigation service : Evidence from Uganda
REFNo: SS2112ES
Do certain intermediaries (providers of agricultural inputs) facilitate efficient information aggregation and dissemination of farming knowledge between farmers?,
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USA |
2024-08-05 13:11:25 |
2027-08-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Emma Thurau G
ID: UNCST-2023-R007945
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Balancing nutrients and toxins in Black and White colobus monkey(Colobus guereza) diet
REFNo: NS521ES
1. Determine if black and white colobus monkeys use sensory information to select their foods. 2. Determine how plant secondary metabolites (toxins) and nutrients impact black and white food selection and tree visitation rates.
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USA |
2023-06-30 12:47:56 |
2026-06-30 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Jedediah Silver
ID: UNCST-2023-R007939
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The Effects of Cassava Drying Technology on Commercialization and Consumption Smoothing
REFNo: SS1700ES
The main goals of the pilot RCT are to ascertain the technical efficiency of the machines, the viability of the model where agents operate the machines and charge a fee for drying, and to observe how harvest and sales timing, consumption and cropping decisions change when farmers gain access to drying technology. In addition, we will explore additional mechanisms including varying the contract structure, and getting a sense of which channels are most salient to focus on (e.g. how likely we would be to detect effects on intertemporal smoothing beyond addressing the barriers to adoption to a seemingly profitable technology).
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USA |
2023-04-20 21:05:53 |
2026-04-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Zeina Makhoul
ID: UNCST-2022-R009779
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Nutrition Assessment for Children with Disabilities and Children without Family Care
REFNo: HS2826ES
The study purpose is to fill longstanding gaps in data on nutrition and feeding for children with disabilities and children living in childcare institutions in Uganda. Our overall hypothesis is that children with disabilities and children living in institutions in Uganda have very high rates of malnutrition, face significant barriers to accessing appropriate nutrition services and support, and merit increased prioritization in policies, practices, and investments.
Our objectives are to:
1. Estimate the prevalence of malnutrition, feeding difficulties, and inappropriate feeding practices among children with disabilities and children living in institutions.
2. Assess the perceived barriers to adequate nutrition and feeding among families of children with disabilities and children living in institutions.
3. Understand nutrition and feeding-related support needs of children with disabilities, children living in institutions, and their caregivers
4. Identify the gaps and opportunities in nutrition and feeding services and policies for children with disabilities and children living in institutions; and disseminate recommendations to inform relevant policies and practices.
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USA |
2023-06-20 11:37:36 |
2026-06-20 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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