BSc FST MSc PH
Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Field Epidemiology Track
Mental Health and Substance Abuse – Ministry of Health
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Steven Ndugwa Kabwama, is currently a fellow (Cohort 2015) of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program – Field Epidemiology Track. He has previously worked on several value chain enhancement projects. For example he worked as a Project Facilitator with Save the Children in Nakasongola District, Uganda, which was aimed at improving nutrition, food security and farmers’ incomes through establishing food-based microenterprises.
He later worked as a Research Assistant at the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development which also aimed at improving the livelihoods of farmers involved in the banana value chain. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Danish State Scholarship at the University of Southern Denmark to pursue his MSc Public Health. After completing the degree, he was hired to work as a Research Assistant at the University of Southern Denmark, where he was an instructor and tutor for advanced epidemiology and applied biostatistics. He was also a course coordinator for the introductory course in epidemiology and biostatistics for new students. From the work he did there, he published a paper on the association between HIV/AIDS related knowledge and perception of risk for infection.
Currently he is placed in the program of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Control at the Ministry of Health. Among other things, the program is in charge of policy formulation geared towards the control of substances of abuse such as tobacco and alcohol. To this end, Steven is involved in the drafting of the Alcohol Control Policy and the Alcohol Control Bill. His role entails coordination of inputs from various stake holders and furnishing the documents with updated statistics on alcohol use and abuse in Uganda. From the WHO NCD risk factor survey that was carried out in Uganda in 2014, Steven has written and published 2 papers, one on alcohol and the other on tobacco.
This information is particularly relevant when updating policy documents. Steven has also been involved in several outbreak investigations. He was involved in the investigation and response to the Kampala Typhoid outbreak of 2015, he also investigated a mysterious bleeding illness in Hoima District. He worked on an investigation of a Rift Valley Fever outbreak in Kabale District and evaluated the Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance system in Northern Uganda.