Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program shines at the Uganda Society of Healthy Scientists conference of 11-12 August 2022

Every year under the auspice of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, the Uganda Society for Health Scientists organize a conference for scientists all over the country to share findings of research projects they are working on. This year, it was held on 11-12 August at Hotel Africana under the theme “Redefining collaborations on Health research” with sub-themes revolving around Antimicrobial resistance, data science, health systems, mental health and ethics in research. The Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program was represented by two fellows from Cohort 2021, Dr. Allan Komakech and Petranilla Nakamya who each won awards for best oral presentation and abstract respectively. Allan presented work on “Adverse events following AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine among adults in Greater Kampala, March – April 2021” while Petranilla presented work on “Trends and distribution of stillbirths in Uganda, 2014 – 2020”