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Greetings from the ICHAD and SMART Africa Teams!
Tis the season to celebrate our 2021 graduates! These seven hardworking students juggled a rigorous academic curriculum
while simultaneously making sure our studies run smoothly in the field and working with center leadership to disseminate study findings. Our Centers prides ourselves on growing a strong research pipeline, so as we wish our graduates success, we also want to
welcome a new cohort of summer trainees from the LEAD Global Training,
Researcher Resilience Training, and CHILD-Global Research Fellowship training programs who will
be joining us for 10-weeks of intensive training starting in June. Join us in welcoming summer training fellows to ICHAD!
Also noted below are workshop highlights from our administrative supplement that seeks to formalize a monitoring and evaluation system for Policy and Regulations Against Sexual Harassment (PRASH) policy at Makerere University as part of the CHILD-GRF program.
The ICHAD and SMART Africa Teams
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Celebrating Success!
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Congratulations to our ICHAD and SMART Africa colleagues (and recent alumni) on their recent milestones! We are so proud of all they have accomplished in their academic careers and are
grateful for their many contributions to the mission of ICHAD. We wish them continued success and all the best!
· Emmanuel Amoako,
ICHAD Graduate Student Assistant, graduating with a MSW from WashU
· Dr. William Byansi,
ICHAD Research Associate for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation at WashU and earning his PhD
· Miriam Mukasa,
former ICHAD-Uganda Head of Operations received a degree in Psychiatry from University of Southern California
· Joelynn Muwanga,
former ICHAD Research Assistant received her MPH from Johns Hopkins University
· Phionah Namatovu,
ICHAD and SMART Africa Graduate Student Assistant, graduating with a MPH from WashU
· Flavia Namuwonge,
ICHAD-Uganda Head of Operations received her MBA from Uganda Martyr's University
· Rashida Namirembe,
ICHAD Graduate Student Assistant, graduating with a MSW from WashU
· Sarah Nanono,
ICHAD-Uganda Research Assistant, graduating with a Diploma in Computer Science and Information Technology from Kampala University
· Lily Zmachinski, SMART
Africa Graduate Student Assistant, graduating with a MSW from WashU
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Research Study Spotlight
Policy and Regulations Against Sexual Harassment (PRASH)
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CHILD-GRF Co-Director and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. Noeline Nakasujja addresses participants during the two-day workshop
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ICHAD and Makerere University have a one-year supplement funded by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) as part of the CHILD-GRF program, to implement and evaluate the policy strategies
on sexual misconduct and harassment at Makerere University. This supplement is led by Dr. Noeline Nakasujja (Makerere University), and Drs. Proscovia Nabunya and Rachel Brathwaite (Washington University in St. Louis).
Last month, the team held a two-day workshop to train participants on sexual misconduct and harassment policy (SM&H)
monitoring and evaluation as there is no system in place to evaluate sexual harassment policies at Makerere University. On the first day participants – including 42 academic and administrative staff, Gender Mainstreaming Directorate (GMD) staff, research
assistants (AfriChild), and well as students learned about current policy implementation procedures and progress, past sexual misconduct and harassment training, implementation challenges and gaps as well as the basics of monitoring and evaluation. Participants
engaged in group activities and discussions to brainstorm ideas to overcome policy implementation challenges.
On day two, the Washington University team consisting of Drs. Nabunya, Brathwaite and Ana Baumann presented on the
Implementation Research Logic Model adapted for PRASH. Participants engaged in group discussions to identify key indicators that can be used to monitor key implementation strategies that delineated the policy. Participants also had the opportunity to review
the data collection instrument that will be used in an upcoming survey of 300 university members to explore current policy knowledge; perceived impact of the policy on addressing SM&H issues; perceived multilevel facilitators and barriers to policy implementation
and uptake; implementation gaps; and recommendations for policy improvement and sustainability.
This event was featured in Makerere University’s newspaper and you can learn more here.
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Welcome 2021 Research Trainees and Fellows!
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We are thrilled to welcome three new cohorts of highly qualified research trainees and fellows! The NIH-funded
LEAD Global Training, Researcher Resilience Training, and
CHILD-Global Research Fellowship Programs welcome thirty new and returning doctoral students, medical residents, and early career research faculty from institutions and organizations across the United States and Uganda. The intensive summer training
launches on June 1, with a rigorous schedule of webinars, classes, and networking meetings to help participants advance their research in areas including child and adolescent mental health, mental health disparities, and HIV in low-resource settings in the
U.S., Sub-Saharan Africa, and globally. We look forward to an impactful summer together!
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Newly Published Work
“The efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a family-based economic empowerment intervention (Suubi+Adherence) on suppression of HIV viral loads among adolescents living with HIV: Results from
a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in southern Uganda." Accepted for publication in the Journal of the International AIDS
Tozan, Y., Capasso, A., Sun, S., Neilands, T.B., Damulira, C., Namuwonge, F., Nakigozi, G., Mwebembezi, A., Mukasa, B., Sensoy Bahar, O., Nabunya, P., Mellins, C.A., McKay, M. M., Ssewamala,
F. M.
“Predicting the individualized risk of poor adherence to ART medication among adolescents living with HIV in Uganda:
The Suubi+Adherence Study.” Accepted for publication in the Journal of the International AIDS
Brathwaite, R., Ssewamala, F. M., Neilands T.B., Okumu, M., Mutumba, M., Damulira, C., Nabunya, P., Kizito, S., Sensoy Bahar, O., Mellins, C.A., McKay, M. M.
“Development and external validation of a risk calculator to predict internalizing symptoms among Ugandan youths affected
by HIV” Accepted for publication in Psychiatry Research
Brathwaite, R., Ssewamala, F.M., Neilands, T.B., Nabunya, P., Byansi, W., Damulira, C.
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Research Studies
ANZANSI Family Program
Diabetes-Associated Risk
Factors
SMART Africa Studies
Kyaterekera Project
Say No to Stigma
Suubi+Adherence-R2
Suubi4Cancer
Suubi4Her
Suubi4STEM
Suubi4Stigma
Training Programs
CHILD Global Research Fellowship
LEAD Global Training Program
Researcher Resilience Training
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Recent Events
SMART Africa 5th Annual Conference of Child Behavioral Health, April 21-22
South to South Collaboration to Strengthen Child and Adolescent Mental Health in SSA
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Videos
Penina Acayo Laker, April 13
Interdisciplinary and Human-Centered Design:
Fostering Participatory Design Research Approaches
to Address Public Health Related Issues
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NOTABLES
Congratulations to our former fellows on their new roles!
Donte Bernard, RRT 2020, transitioned from Postdoctoral Fellow to Assistant Professor at Medical
University of South Carolina National Crime Victims Treatment and Research Center.
Moses Okumu, RRT 2020, has accepted a new position as Assistant Professor at the School of
Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Robert Motley, RRT 2019, successfully defended his dissertation and has accepted a position
as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Boston College School of Social Work.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Congratulations to Jasmin Brooks, RRT 2021,
for earning the Morton M. Silverman Student Award at the
2021 American Association of Suicidology Awards
Joshua Kiyingi, RRT 2021,
and Proscovia Nabunya, RRT 2019, were panelists on the NIMH Human
Mobility and HIV Workshop
Kemba Noel-London, RRT 2019, successfully defended her dissertation in the Department of Health
Management and Policy at Saint Louis University
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A Word from
Some Past Trainees
"It [summer training program] was an enriching and empowering experience for me."
- 2020 CHILD-GRF Fellow
"Thank you for the investment in supports scholars of color in conducting global research."
- 2020 LEAD Trainee
"I appreciated the collaborations and a network of individuals with similar interests that I can utilize to work together on future projects"
- 2020 RRT Trainee
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Please join us in welcoming Dr. Nhial Tutlam,
LEAD Global Training Program Postdoctoral Fellow!
Dr. Tutlam earned both his Master of Public Health and PhD degrees from Saint Louis University. He has been the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Program manager in the Division of Health Promotion
and Public Health Research at Saint Louis County Department of Public Health for the last five years, where he oversaw chronic diseases and mental health surveillance.
Dr. Tutlam was also the Project Director for Project RESTORE, a minority youth violence prevention project funded by
the Office of Minority Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His research interests include chronic diseases, maternal and child health, and mental health with specific focus on the intergenerational impact of trauma.
Dr. Tutlam is also an adjunct public health instructor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and
at Lindenwood University.
He was part of the inaugural cohort of the LEAD Global Training Program as a summer program trainee in 2020, and we
are thrilled to welcome Dr. Tutlam in his new role at ICHAD!
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