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

Team

Prof. Jerome Kabakyenga

Team Member
Uganda

Biography

He is a holder of a PhD in public health. I serve as a professor at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Uganda. Currently I am a director of an institute of maternal and child health research at MUST. Prior to my current position, I served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at MUST. My research interests are the following areas: reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH); community engagement; and health professions education.

Research Interests

  • Organisational learning
  • Workplace Learning
  • Research Design
  • Sports Coaching
  • Coaching (Education)                                                                                                                                  Activities and Societies: Director Maternal Newborn and Child Health Institute, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (2013 to date)
  • Contact person for Lund University-Mbarara University of Science and Technology collaboration (2002 – 2010)
  • Co-Director Healthy Child Uganda (a partnership of University of Calgary and Mbarara University of Science and Technology) (2003 to date)
  • Co-Founder and Advisory Board Member MicoResearchActivities and societies: Director Maternal Newborn and Child Health Institute, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (2013 to date)