UQEB Volume 7 Issue 4 Oct-Dec 2022

UNIPH Quarterly Epidemiological Bulletin: Volume 7 Issue 4 October-December 2022

Dear Reader,

We take great pleasure in welcoming you to Issue 4 Volume 7 of the Uganda National Institute of Public Health (UNIPH) Quarterly Epidemiological Bulletin.

UNIPH UPDATES

Ebola virus disease outbreak response September-December, 2022

On 20th September 2022, the Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Sudan ebolavirus (SVD) after a case managed at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) in Mubende District was confirmed through testing at the Uganda Virus Research…
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Air Quality; The opportune sphere worth pursuit

Are you aware about the air you breathe? Have you ever known that the air you breathe might have harmful effects on your health? Do you know that people are dying prematurely due to air pollution? Last but not least, do you even know that…
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Uganda PHFP Shines at the 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA), Kigali…

From 2021, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in conjunction with African Union have organized annual conferences to help further Africa CDC’s mission to “strengthen Africa’s public health institutions’…
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Cohort 2022 Fellow’s manuscript writing workshop, Jinja, 05th-09th December 2022

A manuscript writing workshop was held on December 05-09, 2022 for all PHFP cohort 2022 Advanced Field Epidemiology Fellows who had completed a public health project as evidenced by a report or a draft manuscript. The workshop was funded…
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Editorial Team

Dr. Alex Riolexus Ario |
Director, 
Uganda National Institute of Public Health, 
Director, 
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, 
MoH, 
Editor in Chief, 
UNIPH Quarterly Epidemiological Bulletin

Lilian Bulage |
Scientific Writer, 
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, MoH 
Scientific Editor, 
UNIPH Quarterly Epidemiological Bulletin

Dr. Issa Makumbi |
Director, 
Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, 
MoH

Paul Edward Okello |
Country Coordinator, 
Data Impact Program, 
Uganda National Institute of Public Health, 
MoH

Daniel Kadobera |
Program Coordinator - 
Advanced Field Epi, 
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, 
MoH
Dr. Benon Kwesiga |
Field Coordinator,
Advanced Field Epi, 
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, 
MoH

Dr. Richard Migisha |
Field Supervisor, 
Advanced Field Epi, 
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, 
MoH

Jane Frances Zalwango |
Advanced Field Epi Fellow, 
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, 
National Malaria Control Division, 
MoH

Helen Nelly Naiga |
Advanced Field Epi Fellow, 
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, 
Nutrition Division, 
MoH








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