Derrick Ssewanyana, PhD student at Kenya Medical Research Institute

About

A Public Health enthusiast currently pursuing a PhD in Adolescent Health studies.

I have previously worked in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector in Uganda and had the opportunity of working in Ecological Sanitation, school WASH and community water supply and access projects.

Although my current works focus on health risk behavior of adolescents, WASH issues stay at heart, and a number of WASH related issues such as menstrual hygiene, food hygiene, personal hygiene etc are cross cutting themes in my current work

Information

• Location: Kilifi, Kenya

Industry experience

Education: Masters

Seniority: Trainee, Intern

Years of experience: 1 to 5 years

Work experience

• Program Assistant

  Multi-tasked (proposal development, report writing, facilitation, dissemination, field research) on various community WASH projects including the ECOSAN-Res project and various national wide WASH surveys

  Network for Water and Sanitation, Uganda (NETWAS)

  2010  - 2011

• Health Officer (Global Health Corps Fellowship Program)

  Quality improvement of existing primary health programs (WASH, Nutrition, reproductive health) reaching 25,000 refugees in Kyangwali refugee settlement which involved: designing monitoring tools, capacity building, proposal writing, identifying project gaps

   

  Action Africa Help Uganda

  2011  - 2012

• Intern, Substance Abuse Management

  Interned in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health department at WHO, Geneva, with a specific task of updating mhGAP community health training package on substance abuse management

  World Health Organization

  2013  - 2013

• PhD student

  Research works on Adolescent health with a specific interest in health risk behavior and neuro-cognitive outcomes

  Kenya Medical Research Institute

  2015  - Present

Taxonomy

• Researcher