Derrick Ssewanyana, PhD student at Kenya Medical Research Institute

Summary

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

Contact info

Location: Kilifi, Kenya

Industry Experience

Education: Masters

Seniority: Trainee, Intern

Years of experience: 1 to 5 years

Work Experience

Program Assistant

Network for Water and Sanitation, Uganda (NETWAS)

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

Health Officer (Global Health Corps Fellowship Program)

Action Africa Help Uganda

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

Intern, Substance Abuse Management

World Health Organization

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

PhD student

Kenya Medical Research Institute

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

Industry Expertise

Researcher