Publications for Justus Asasira

Justus Asasira, a MUST IUC – UCoBS Sub-project 3 (Increased Access and Utilization of Affordable Energy Technologies) Scholar, is pleased to share the publication of one of his PhD papers in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, one of Springer Nature’s journals. The paper is titled “A comparative assessment of environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of a parabolic solar cooker and charcoal for cooking in Uganda” and can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-025-03377-5 for detailed reading, learning from, and citing it.
The paper discusses a wide range of environmental issues, not limited to the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus, but goes further into circularity and life cycle assessments (LCA) methodologies.

Other Publications

Describing the Performance and the Infrastructure Requirements of the Existing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) Screening Algorithms for Diabetic Patients: An Umbrella Review (2025), Journal of Medical Systems: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10916-025-02280-2

Do Perceptions Influence the Adoption and Abandonment of Biomass Briquettes for Cooking? An Exploratory Study of Different Energy Source Users in Mbarara City (2025). Journal of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, Macrothink Institute: https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/emsd/article/view/22783

Exploring greywater hydroponic vegetable growing and phytoremediation capacity of coleus plants for urban farmers in Mbarara City Uganda (2024) East African Journal of Science, Technology and Innovation: https://eajsti.org/index.php/EAJSTI/article/view/1038

Using Low-Dose Aspirin in the Prevention of Pre-eclampsia and Screening for High Risks: An Assessment of Health Workers’ Knowledge and Practices in Southwestern Uganda (2023). Journal of Clinics in Mother and Child Health: 10.35248/2090-7214.23.S18.001

Is Oil and Gas Discovery a Generational Curse? The Plight of Children in Land Compensation Dispossession in Uganda (2023), Journal of Internal Displacement,

https://journalofinternaldisplacement.org/index.php/JID/article/view/121

A Mobile Health App May Improve Maternal and Child Health Knowledge and Practices among Rural Women with Limited Education in Uganda. A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (2022). JAMIA Open, Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooac081

Challenges in Accessing Maternal and Child Health Services during COVID-19 and the Potential Role of Social Networking Technologies (2022), Digital Health Journal, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20552076221086769

Challenges of Ending the Rwandan Refugee Problem in Uganda; The relationship between the Old Case Loads and New Case Loads (2022). International Journal of Social Work, Macrothink Institute,
https://doi.org/10.5296/ijsw.v9i1.19646

Availability and uptake of community-based rehabilitation and inclusive development services for children with spina bifida in Southwestern Uganda (2022) Journal of Clinical Pediatric and Child Care Research https://www.opastpublishers.com/open-access-articles/availability-and-uptake-of-communitybased-rehabilitation-and-inclusive-development-services-for-children-with-spina-bifi.pdf

Rewards and performance of health centre IV workers in Greater Mbarara District (2021), International Journal of Scientific Research and Publications. http://dx.doi.org/10.29322/IJSRP.11.09.2021.p11734

Public-Private Partnerships in healthcare and its impact on health outcomes: Evidence from Ruharo Mission Hospital in Uganda (2018). International Journal of Social Science Studies. https://doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v6i12.3911

University as Facilitator Community Based Sustainable Solutions to Demographic Challenges in South Western Uganda

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