JH-IIRU Fogarty Fellows Successfully Defend Theses
As part of the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health funded program, Johns Hopkins University-Makerere University Chronic Consequences of Trauma, Injuries and Disability in Uganda (JHU-MU Chronic TRIAD), the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit supports three cohorts on long-term trainees.
Recently, three fellows from our second cohort successfully defended their TRIAD-related dissertations. All three fellows are expected to graduate their MPH program at Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) in Uganda in January 2016.
The JHU-MU Chronic TRIAD program aims to strengthen research capacity on the long-term health and economic consequences of trauma, injuries and disability across the lifespan in Uganda through an innovative model of sustainable capacity development.
By addressing chronic consequences of trauma, injuries and disability in Uganda, we aim to 1) develop a core group of researchers at MUSPH through a variety of training activities; 2) promote research around key national priorities and themes that include the establishment and use of national databases relevant to injury, trauma and disability, development and evaluation of community-based interventions, and exploration of the social and economic costs; 3) establish a national forum for an annual research-to-policy dialogue; and 4) create a center for MUSPH research that enhances the sustainability of our efforts through activities that include increasing capacity for research management, research ethics coordination, proposal development, and producing continuing education materials.
The program is based on the close partnership between Johns Hopkins and Makerere University School of Public Health, two academic institutions with a strong commitment to understanding the long-term impact of trauma and injuries, experience in research, and a history of collaborative work. Our model will use JHU's expertise to strengthen the Ugandan institution, promote a sustainable research enterprise focused on the chronic consequences of trauma, injuries, and disability, and enable national dissemination of research evidence to influence policy in Uganda.
Below are the fellows and their dissertation titles:
Damalie Nsangi
“School attendance of 6-18 year old children with physical disability in the Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Uganda”
Barbara Abindabyuamu
“Emergency department waiting time and its terminates at Mulago National Referral Hospital”
Esther Bayiga
“Pre-hospital care time intervals among victims of road traffic injures in Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional study”.