Jimmy Osuret, MPH

Department: Disease Control and Environmental Health

PhD Topic: Child pedestrian injury risk factors, Vulnerability, Coping Capacity and Effectiveness of injury prevention interventions: Implications for child pedestrian interventions in Uganda

Description: Jimmy’s work is focusing risk factors, underlying vulnerabilities coping capacities, and effectiveness of child pedestrian interventions in LMICs. The findings have implications for identifying pathways that will guide decision-making throughout the entire process, from identifying the problem to planning and implementing sustainable child pedestrian injury prevention programmes.

Supervisors:

1. Assoc. Prof. Lynn Atuyambe, Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
2. Dr. Ashley Van Niekerk, Violence Injury and Peace Research Unit South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
3. Dr. Victoria Nankabirwa, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda