Global Health Research

The Johns Hopkins – Makerere University Chronic Consequences of Trauma, Injuries and Disability (JHU-MU Chronic-TRIAD) program will serve the overall goal 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 AFFORD program is a five-year health marketing program in Kampala, Uganda. CCP as prime is partnering with the Futures Group, the Malaria Consortium, DCFU, PULSE, and Aclaim in order to manage program activities and establish an independent Ugandan entity, the Uganda Health Management Group (UHMG).

HIV Clinical Care, research and training in Uganda. Major research activities include ARV cohort, studies of IRIS, Kaposi''s sarcoma, Neurologic complications of HIV, African clinical pharmacology, HIV resistance, and hepatitis B. Opportunities exist for training in the HIV Clinic directed by Andrew Kambugu and to participate in teaching through Gisela Schneider?s ongoing programs training African physicians and nurses in HIV care.

Leading investigators in the area of HIV research from Johns Hopkins (JHU) and Makerere Universities (MU) propose to establish the Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University HIV Clinical Trials Unit-Kampala, Uganda to conduct critical HIV prevention and treatment research. This Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) consists of an administrative base at JHU and two Kampala clinical research sites (CRS). The MU-JHU Research Collaboration site will be affiliated with both the IMPAACT and the Microbicide Network applications, focusing on HIV prevention and treatment in women and children. The Infectious Diseases Institute site will be affiliated with the HPTN Network application with a focus on HIV prevention in adults. Both sites also have the capacity to expand to other network areas such as HIV vaccine end treatment studies. The clinical, data management, laboratory, and administrative resources and expertise necessary to screen, enroll, and retain HIV infected and uninfected participants in HIV prevention and treatment trials are currently available. The presence of the shared CAP-certified laboratory, community advisory boards, strong regulatory/QC sections, and local Ugandan IRB oversight coupled with extensive clinical trials experience will insure that all research is conducted to the highest scientific and ethical standards. The longstanding (>17 yr) relationship between JHU and MU...

This collaboration involves the Ministry of Health and the Regional Center for Quality of Care, Makerere University. The project aims to build capacity in strategic leadership and management for population and reproductive health (PRH) at the district and sub-district levels. In 1997 the government enacted a policy to decentralize governance in Uganda. The policy ensures the transfer of some of the powers at the national level to the districts, thereby empowering the local communities to actively participate in decision-making on matters affecting them, including the delivery of health services in which population and reproductive health services are major components. However, there subsequently has been a lack of capacity at the local levels to effectively implement the decentralization policy, a gap to be addressed by this project.

In February of 2008, The General Electric Foundation has awarded Jhpiego a grant of $850,000 over three years to implement the program, “Improving the Quality of Health Service Delivery in Isingiro District of Uganda.” This program aims to improve the quality of health services at community health centers and referral hospitals by implementing SBM-R, focusing initial efforts on strengthening infection prevention and control practices in the rural district of Isingiro in southwest Uganda. This grant supports GE’s corporate initiative called Developing Health Globally, which aims to improve community health and reduce infant and maternal mortality in selected regions across 10 countries in Africa.

About Jhpiego: For nearly 40 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance improvement approaches.

For more information, please visit our web site: www.jhpiego.org

Since 2004, Jhpiego—with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Uganda—has helped to establish and further develop a new, local nongovernmental organization, PREFA (Protecting Families Against AIDS), in order to scale up PMTCT services countrywide. Specifically, through a PMTCT Senior Technical Advisor based at PREFA, Jhpiego is strengthening the organization’s capacity to implement improved PMTCT services and more effectively monitor and evaluate the provision of services—thereby improving management processes, and enabling assessment of progress and identification of best practices. Through the advisor, Jhpiego is also assisting selected PMTCT service delivery sites in identified capacity-building areas, including establishing supervisory and monitoring (performance improvement) frameworks. With Jhpiego’s technical support, PREFA has developed nine independent PMTCT sites, which are fully functional and collectively provide PMTCT services to about 20,000 women annually.

About Jhpiego:

For nearly 40 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance improvement approaches.

For more information, please visit our web site: www.jhpiego.org