UCoBS MUST-IUC Sub-Project Four
Research title; “The perceptions, lived experiences and the effect of a Multi-Stakeholder Support Intervention on the Reproductive-Pregnancy Prevention Autonomy of out-of-school adolescents and young adults in Kasese District, Western Uganda”
Enos Mirembe Masereka is a first-year student doing a PhD in Nursing at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. He is currently a Lecturer of Midwifery at the department of Nursing and Midwifery, Mountains of the Moon University. He holds a Master of Nursing in Midwifery and Women’s Health from Makerere University, a Master of Public Health in Population & Reproductive Health from Uganda Martyrs University, and a Bachelor of Nursing from Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Mr. Masereka’s passion for Midwifery and Reproductive health developed the time he was working as an Assistant District Health Officer in charge of Maternal and Child Health in Ntoroko District, Western Uganda from 2013 to 2019.
During this time, he mentored midwives in a wide range of service packages such as goal oriented antenatal care, conducting a clean and safe delivery, emergency obstetric and newborn care, family planning, infant and young child feeding, elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV and many more. Due to his vast experience in maternal and child health, Mr. Masereka has also worked closely with Save the Children International (SCI) as a resource person in areas of Kasese, Ntoroko and Bundibugyo Districts. This defines his current research interest in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH).
The UCoBS PhD scholarship opportunity came at time when Mr. Masereka was contemplating on what can be done to bring to an-end the rampant adolescent pregnancies as reflected in Uganda’s population structure in which slightly more than 50% of the population is young. The MUST-IUC Sub-Project Four, which has a focus on “improved Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents” is was a gate-way for the implementation of an intervention with potential to bring about the realization of reproductive [pregnancy prevention] autonomy, embrace contraception, delay and limit births among adolescents and young adults [18-25] for Uganda to attain a future productive population and realize socio-economic transformation.
Supervisors
- Grace Nambozi
- Mieke Embo
- Professor Kristien Roelens
Doctoral Committee
- Grace Nambozi
- Mieke Embo
- Professor Kristien Roelens
- Professor Dr. Jerome Kabakyenga
- Eve Wanyenze
