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Uganda

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5+ years of Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist | Researcher | Program Management | Data Analyst

Profile Summary

Epidemiologist and monitoring and evaluation specialist based in Kampala, Uganda, with more than five years of applied experience across disease surveillance, health systems, infection prevention and control, and the evaluation of large public health programmes. I support researchers, principal investigators, NGOs, ministries, and biotech and pharma clients on short-term and project-based work covering research design, quantitative and qualitative analysis, scientific and grey-literature writing, data review and entry, policy analysis, M&E system design, survey instrument development, and data visualisation. I hold a Master of Public Health in Monitoring and Evaluation from Makerere University School of Public Health, certificates in Global Health M&E and Project Management in Global Health from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Laboratory Technology from Makerere University. My most recent role was at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, where I coordinated a USD 1.5M Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care programme across 330 facilities in 19 districts of Uganda and led M&E across a combined portfolio exceeding USD 3M. I designed and implemented mixed-methods evaluations using difference-in-differences, interrupted time series, multilevel regression, structured surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and realist evaluation with the ICAMO heuristic. Programme performance under my coordination rose from 55 percent to 89 percent, with facilities above the 80 percent quality threshold increasing from 8 percent to 85 percent over 25 months. I also led the cIDSR training evaluation across 11,608 learner records using the Kirkpatrick four-level model and Wilcoxon signed-rank testing. I have led data analysis for outbreak surveillance and health workforce protection studies, and I built a national 7-1-7 outbreak timeliness dashboard in Power BI integrated into the National Public Health Emergency Operations Centre incident tracking workflow. I am Co-Investigator on the Anticipatory Action for Health Service Resilience and Detection (AHEAD) study, a mixed-methods protocol covering 2,800 health workers, and I managed institutional review board approvals and the electronic study binder through to activation. My publication record covers five manuscripts in various stages, including a NAPHS evaluation paper accepted in Health Security (Mary Ann Liebert, publication June 2026), a realist study and an integrated mentorship paper under review at BMJ Global Health, and seven conference presentations at JASHC and AFREhealth between 2024 and 2025. Services I offer on Kolabtree Research design and protocol development: study question framing, theory of change, conceptual frameworks, sampling design, power calculations, ethics protocol drafting, IRB and regulatory submission packages, consent forms, data management plans. Survey design and instrument development: structured questionnaires, KAP surveys, baseline and endline tools, KII and FGD guides, cognitive testing, pilot adaptation, programming in ODK Central and Kobo Toolbox with skip logic, validation, GPS capture, and offline deployment. Quantitative analysis: data cleaning, descriptive analysis, regression modelling (linear, logistic, multilevel, mixed-effects), difference-in-differences, interrupted time series, survival analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, survey weighting, and non-parametric testing (Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, chi-square) in STATA, R, SPSS, and advanced Excel. Qualitative analysis: thematic analysis, framework analysis, content analysis, and structured coding in MAXQDA for key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and document review. Data review, entry, and quality assurance: data quality assessments, DHIS2 data review, double-entry verification, codebook development, variable harmonisation across datasets, and routine data triangulation against programme records. Data visualisation and dashboard development: Power BI dashboards (Microsoft Certified), Tableau, automated daily and weekly refresh, DAX measures, drill-through pages, manuscript-ready figures in R and Stata, and infographics in Adobe Creative Suite. M&E system design: results frameworks, logframes, theory of change diagrams, indicator matrices, performance monitoring plans, data flow maps, MEAL plans, and routine reporting calendars. Programme evaluation: baseline, midline, endline, and impact evaluations using mixed methods, Kirkpatrick four-level training evaluation, realist evaluation with the ICAMO heuristic, outcome harvesting, and most significant change. Scientific and technical writing: peer-reviewed manuscripts, conference abstracts, technical reports, donor reports, evaluation reports, executive summaries, policy briefs, and white papers. Policy analysis and evidence synthesis: rapid evidence reviews, scoping and systematic literature reviews, health policy analysis, stakeholder mapping, health security and IDSR policy benchmarking, and country case study development. Surveillance and digital health: IDSR and eIDSR system design and usability evaluation using the System Usability Scale, error rates, and 7-1-7 timeliness metrics, DHIS2 configuration and data quality assessment, and outbreak signal review. How I work I deliver clean, reproducible code, well-documented datasets, and clear written outputs in academic and donor-facing formats. I am responsive to client deadlines, comfortable working across time zones, and experienced in multi-stakeholder coordination across ministries, donors, implementing partners, and research teams. I am available for one-off tasks, short-term packages of up to 12 weeks, and retainer arrangements.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Comparative Analysis
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Nonlinear Regression
• ☆ Survey Design
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Statistical Review
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Trend Analysis
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ STATA
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ R
• ☆ Tableau
• ☆ Markup Languages
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Pandemic Preparedness
• ☆ Food Security
• ☆ Poverty Alleviation
• ☆ Disaster Relief
• ☆ Global Health
• ☆ Public Health and Sanitation
• ☆ Tobacco Use Prevention & Control
• ☆ Foodborne Disease

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing, Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, Creative Writing, Audio Transcription

Research User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Digital Strategy Consulting, Healthcare Consulting, Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Product Evaluation

Work Experience

Makerere University

University teaching assistant

January 2026 - Present

M & E; IPC, Epidemic Preparedness

Infectious Diseases Institute

July 2022 - Present

Student

Makerere University

2016 - Present

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and Project Coordinator

Infectious Diseases Institute

January 2022 - December 2025

Research Assistant/Project Officer

Infectious Diseases Institue

June 2021 - December 2021

Data Manager and Research Associate

Mbale Reogional Emergency Operations Centre

January 2020 - May 2021

Education

Master of Public Health Monitoring and Evaluation

Makerere University

July 2023 - January 2025

Certificate in Global Health Monitoring and Evaluation

University of Washington

January 2023 - May 2023

Global Health Project Management

University of Washington

March 2022 - June 2022

Bsc Biomedical Laboratory Technology

Makerere University

June 2016 - January 2019

Certifications

• Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and Control

  Infection Control Africa Network

  September 2023 - Present

• Grantsmanship and Scholarly Writing

  Infectious Diseases Institute

  August 2023 - Present

• GIS and Spatial Analyst

  Infectious Diseases Institute

  March 2023 - Present

• Microsoft PowerBI

  Microsoft

  January 2023 - Present

• Advanaced Data Analysis and Management

  Rice University

  November 2020 - Present

• Research in Global Health Emergencies

  The Global Health Network

  September 2020 - Present

• Good Clinical Practice

  NIIDA Clinical Trials Network

  January 2025 - December 2026