A policymaker’s perspective on the REFLECT Study. How important has the REFLECT study been to Ministry of Health? Brian Luswata: For us as the Ministry of Health, I think it has been a good eye opener as to whether our Covid-19 response activities have been effective. And it sorts of helps us to identify the […]
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Effective partnerships for research – The case of REFLECT Study. The REFLECT study is being implemented in various refugee settlements of Kisenyi, Kyaka II and Adjumani by a consortium comprising of Makerere University (lead partner), Gulu University, Agency for Cooperation in Research and Development (ACORD-U), Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Ministry of Health (MoH).
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Quick Chat with JESSE KAMSTRA, Country Representative – LWF Uganda. In your opinion, how badly has COVID impacted refugees? Who has been hit the most? Jesse Kamstra: COVID-19 has come onto a situation where refugees already faced high levels of vulnerability. Refugees do not tend to have less resilience and mechanisms to cope with shocks
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A Policy Perspective on COVID-19 and the REFLECT Study. There was general information given out regarding the control of Covid-19 and regarding prevention of transmission. But we didn’t imagine that there were groups out there that need targeted messages. I will give you an example of workers that work in foreign countries, actually in the
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Evidence-based Interventions against COVID 19: A shared interest for academia, humanitarian workers and public health authorities. With the detection of COVID 19 in Uganda and in Adjumani refugee settlements, there was a considerable risk that COVID 19 will devastate the lives of refugees. The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) rapidly responded to build the refugee community
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The separate worlds of adults and children in COVID-19. COVID-19 has flipped the world as we know it, on its head! With it, came new demands on how we should live. As a result, all sections of society, namely: women, children, the elderly and men are struggling to adapt and manage the shocks from the
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Catherine Nakidde Nzesei is the Centre’s Associate Director of Programmes – providing leadership and support to the Programmes Unit across all projects, teams and associates.
Catherine is a public health specialist with graduate training in public health, health promotion and international development. A recipient of the 2022 Commonwealth Scholarship, she embarked on a PhD in public pealth at UCL which is driven by her passion for health system strengthening – and building on previous work around Strengthening Health Professional Regulation in Uganda and Kenya. Catherine’s PhD examines systems and processes for continuous quality improvement of healthcare professional training.
Catherine’s professional interests revolve around leveraging impact from effective systems and empowering vulnerable population categories to enable them to fulfil their potential – whether in a professional, community or personal setting. Some of her previous work has focused on understanding the experiences of refugees and slum dwellers in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as health system resilience. Since inception, Catherine has directly supported for several Centre projects including those on Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), refugee health and wellbeing, Quality Improvement (QI) and livelihoods.
