NCD Research

NCD Research, 27 April 2022

Community health workers: Reviewing the Task-shifting of NCD screening

On a weekly basis, our project managers on the ground in Nakaseke conduct meetings with all community health workers to address opportunities and challenges faced throughout the screening process. As our first study on task-shifting non-communicable disease screening to CHWs is coming to an end, the project team faciliated an informal open group discussion to […]

NCD Research, 3 November 2021

Presentation at GLOHRA Day 2021

On 23rd October 2021, our team members Juliet Nandawula and Rebecca Ingenhoff presented the progress on our cross-sectional "IMPEDE CVD" project at the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) day in Berlin. IMPEDE CVD is a ...

NCD Research, 8 September 2021

Begin of data collection

In August 2021 we commenced our research activities by completing over 30 qualitative interviews in partnership with Makerere University. We conducted interviews with community health workers, NCD patients, key informants and project members. ...

NCD Research, 21 May 2021

Obtainment of ethical approval

Our team received ethical approval from Makerere University College of Health Sciences to perform a mixed-methods-study in Nakaseke ...