Dear Reader,As we close out the year, we are pleased to share our newsletter for October-December 2020 with you. In it, you’ll read about the wonderful work that THRiVE, its research fellows and partners are doing to advance science. As we reflect on 2020, we realize how much we’ve achieved with your support and acceptance. […]
This is a two weeks research methods course suitable for health researchers, social scientists and students undertaking professional training (MSc, MMed, MPH, and PhD). Facilitators for this course are highly experienced researchers from the Tanzania National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) Mwanza Centre, Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit (MITU) and the London School of Hygiene & […]
RACHEAL NINSIIMA This week, THRiVE tested its staff and team of research assistants for COVID-19 in a bid to protect their health and safety. During these uncertain times, THRiVE hopes that that testing for COVID-19 antibodies will provide its staff with insight into whether they may have been exposed to the coronavirus While temperature screening […]
This year’s World AIDS Day is like no other. It is being celebrated amidst another pandemic, COVID-19, which has swept across the world, devastating health systems. The novel coronavirus pandemic is showing us just how interconnected global health is with other critical issues such as social and economic inequalities. However, as the world turns its […]
THRiVE is pleased to announce the upcoming PhD defense for Dr. Daniel Semakula, the Information and Knowledge Translation officer. This defense is scheduled to happen on December 2 2020 via zoom at 12:15PM. Dr. Semakula will defend his dissertation titled: “Improving critical thinking about treatment claims, evidence and choices. Development and evaluation of an intervention […]
Dear Reader,The week of September 21-25, 2020 was a global Fungal Disease Awareness Week but perhaps this fact wasn’t realized by some readers. THRiVE recognizes the importance of fungal diseases and two of our fellows have made it their lifelong commitment to carry on life saving research. They are recognized nationally and internationally for their […]
RACHEAL NINSIIMA Before the outbreak of COVID-19, THRiVE was planning to hold face-to-face mentorship sessions between PHD fellows and their supervisors. But when the pandemic caused educational institutions to shut down and restricted physical meetings, there was need to rethink the Fellows’ Presentation and Mentorship Sessions. A seismic shift happened and the sessions went virtual. […]
Editorial Dear Reader,In this issue of THRiVE News, there are articles on the COVID-19 pandemic and some that are not.It is understandable why researchers and research institutions have taken great interest and mobilized internal and external resources, time and finances to address this crisis. The articles not related to COVID should remind us that the […]
Researchers call for increased community engagement to tackle COVID Emergency situations are often fraught with uncertainty and increased stress and strain on local communities. Lessons from previous outbreaks such as Ebola show that people feared going to health facilities for treatment because of misinformation, mistrust and misunderstanding among affected communities. Moreover, initial response efforts tended […]
THRiVE has emerged as one of the few institutions who have won Makerere University’s Research and Innovations Fund (RIF) grant to conduct a community study on COVID-19. The new achievement comes on the heels of a proposal that was submitted by the consortium in April following a call for proposals. THRiVE’s project is titled: ‘Owning […]
