The William H. Gates Sr. Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (WHGI) invites you to the following webinar:
25 April 2024
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Join us for this webinar on 25 April 2024 at 12 pm ET, delving into the intersection of graduate training and its impact on shaping research for policy and practice in global health.
Join us as we welcome distinguished speaker Dr. Fredrick Edward Makumbi, Associate Professor at Makerere University’s College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Makumbi, a Gates Fellow and seasoned public health professional, brings a wealth of experience in teaching, research, and community service to the discussion.
With a background that spans across continents, Dr. Makumbi holds a Bachelor of Statistics from Makerere University, and earned his Master of Health Sciences in 2000, followed by a PhD in 2004 from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH).
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with a leading expert in global health and gain essential perspectives on how to bridge the gap between academia and real-world application.
This event will be hosted in English with live French Interpretation.
Featured Speaker
Fredrick Edward Makumbi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Makerere University
College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dr. Makumbi, is a Gates Fellow and public health professional involved in teaching, research and community service. He graduated with a Bachelor of Statistics from Makerere University, and Master of Health Sciences’00 and PhD’04 from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH). His training at BSPH was supported by the William H. Gates Sr. Institute and NIH Fogarty.
Dr. Makumbi’s research interests include sexual and reproductive health, orphanhood and HIV, evaluation of health programs, clinical and community trials, design, implementation and statistical analysis of surveys, equity in health services, and HIV intervention and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals.
He is a Uganda team-lead for Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) which monitors progress of Family Planning indicators, a Uganda team co-lead on the USAID-funded project Research for Scalable Solutions (R4S), a member of the Family Planning TWG, Equity Steering Committee, National Self-care Guideline Expert Group, Safety Monitoring Team (SMT) of the Safe Male Circumcision at the Ministry of Health, and National Demographic Dividend Steering Committee (NDDSC) at the National Population Council.
He has conducted international trainings in data management and statistical analysis at the Ministry of Health, Family Health & Nutrition Unit in Seychelles and, at the National Food Technology Research Center in Botswana through support by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2018.
