Francis Walugembe
Education background: Bachelor of Environmental Management from Makerere University Kampala Uganda, Postgraduate diploma in higher education Kampala International University 2017 and MSc Public Health Research by Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology/Ifakara Health Institute-2020 Prior to joining MScPHR I worked with Compassion International Uganda as a Project Officer in charge of health and correspondence at Nyakayojo Child Development Centre Mbarara Uganda at the same time I also coordinated the Young Empowered And Healthy (YEAH) program under Uganda AIDS Commission as Young Advisory Group representative for western region. I later worked as Project Director at Nakawa Students Centre in Kampala implementing a program supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged youth to further their education and general welfare and health of their families. I joined Kampala International University as a Quality Assurance Officer in 2015 in charge of the School of Health Sciences till I enrolled for MScPHR in January, 2018. Iam currently engaged with Indian Medical Research Council/ Scientific Technical Research Commission- African Union (IMRC/AU-STRC) as an IMRC/AU-STRC Fellow. I was also trained by Mwanza Interventional Training Unit (MITU-NIMRI) in research methods for health programs at Mwanza. My interests lie in multidisciplinary research on health system enhancement and implementation, effects of environmental change on vector borne diseases and outbreak investigations. Disease epidemiology and socio-cultural norms and attitudes often make surveillance and control difficult. Climate change and population growth are changing the existing environment at an alarming rate resulting in deforestation, landslides and floods hence increasing infectious disease outbreaks. I am particularly interested in health threats from land use changes in East Africa, where climate change has different effects. Infectious diseases such as cholera are for example re-emerging and increasing and such persistence is associated with environmental and climatic conditions. I am also interested in vector borne disease and the changes in mosquito ecology due to environmental change which poses new and increasing problems to human health. Iam looking forward to using the acquired knowledge and research skills to promote and actively participate in health research to find remedies to the existing public health challenges through scientific research.
Current professional activity
- Research Assistant – Asian Institute of Technology
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