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"There are many young scientists, young women, people of color or who grew up like me, who don't yet have a clear path. I hope to inspire them that there's room for them in science, that they can help people and be recognized for the work that they do."
"I have always had the same personal statement: to gain knowledge and apply it back home."
"This information is absolutely critical for programs that seek to enhance productivity, maximize resources like water and fertilizer, and inform life-saving decisions through early warning leading to early action."
"With the right tools at the right time, in the right place, decisions that save lives can be made."
"I was introduced to the reality of drought and food insecurity."
"I was enlightened on the complexity of the issues in the region, including how development aid compounds the existing problems caused by the political context and the physical environment."
"Education is the key to empowerment and development. As educators, our role is not just to transmit knowledge, but to build confidence, critical thinking skills, and a sense of responsibility in our students."
"Strive to be purpose-driven, choose to be role models and always walk the talk so as to have idealized influences. Have genuine concern for those you lead, be innovative and challenge your followers to do likewise. It is transformational leaders who will build transformational institutions."
"Women at all levels have the ability to care for and nurture others. Women bring commitment to teaching as well as supporting the learners, be they male or female. Furthermore, the presence of women in policy making leads to more balanced policies."
"Take good care of your health and wellbeing. The only way I manage is by doing exercise every day! It is very important that all parts of your body receive that flow of blood."
"I owe all that I am to my unschooled but educated parents who despite not having gone to formal school, still had the wisdom to value the education of the girl child instead of marriage, as was the case then."
"This is a drop in the ocean when we are talking about getting more women to hold leadership positions. We still have a lot of work to do as a continent to change this."
"Women in top leadership positions can inspire and mentor upcoming academics. They would also be well placed to offer advice on how to overcome challenges along the academic path. And female leaders could be in positions where they can influence policies within their institutions and at the national levels."
"What good will it profit you if you get this paper while your young family crumbles?"
"As was the case in the 2020 examination, female candidates have proportionally (in terms of percentages) performed better than the males at all levels, and have shown a lower failure rate. Even at individual subject levels, they have shown a better performance."
"Accessibility to higher education remains a big challenge particularly for students from rural Uganda."
"The purpose of this communication is to inform you of the current position of the government and to encourage you to utilize the ODel system; all institutions that have not embraced the Odel system are encouraged to to do so."
"University leaders are well placed to address the gender gaps in science, technology and innovation. However, at present, most of them are men. Women in top leadership positions can inspire and mentor upcoming academics. They would also be well placed to offer advice on how to overcome challenges along the academic path. And female leaders could be in positions where they can influence policies within their institutions and at the national levels."
"Although the study is being conducted in three African countries, the recommendations will be applicable across the continent because the challenges are often similar."
"Universities and governments need to enact deliberate policies that favour women and girls."
"Dropping age limits for applicants would help."
"When scholarships are advertised, most of them have age limits. When a woman drops out of work to raise children and then returns, she is often … above the age limit for courses."
"There are only 40 women vice-chancellors heading up the roughly 1,500 universities across Africa."
"Initiatives such as RUFORUM’s education funding support for women in higher education have also boosted the number of women with scientific skills and qualifications."
"It is a decrease from the 2020/2021 because in 2020 2021 we will recorded 5.9%. So, it is a drop of 0.6 percent, the Ugandan ratio is far below the Sub Saharan average is 9.4% and the global average which is at 38%."
"I am optimistic that Higher Education Access Program by the FAWE Uganda and Mastercard Foundation will provide an opportunity for more A-Level graduates to join higher education in Uganda."
"Institutions should consider developing approaches favouring companies to offer mentorship to students."
"Higher institutions of learning should invest in research to enable companies to offer virtual internship training to students."
"Companies should familiarize themselves with virtual systems and not give up on mentoring students since they both get a chance for someone with fresh ideas and allowing students to bring out their previous experiences."
"Medical School was intense and it was hard work throughout. “You had to exert yourself to the maximum and sacrifice all other interests. There were frequent tests—written, practicals and orals called viva/vivae—and we had to pass each and everyone."
"Teachers should not die poor. We need to leave a legacy and retire from service to live a happy life. As I serve the nation through extending service to the girl-child, I implore fellow teachers to also live an entreprising life and outlive the notion where society believes that teachers should die poor."
"While many western male students fully paid attention and believed in my work, several of their African counterparts did not take me serious yet i was fully responsible for their respective future as PhD students."
"Upward mobility of women would not be difficult if it were not for gender biases and the multiple responsibilities a woman carries in a community. Some people think women are supposed to be average in anything and yet if a man gets average, he will not be happy."
"The basic thing is that we have given each other space. Being able to support each others interests is important in any relationship. It is also important not to have bottled up feelings in a home."
"I tell them that being honest is important. I have also taught them to be hard-working because the world is so cruel to lazy people."
"Women should remember they are individuals in their own right. They are not appendices of men. You can only improve your life, if you know your value. Society has for too long conditioned women to see themselves as secondary that they can only live in the shadow of men, which is not the case."
"When people are informed they are healthy and when the health workers apply the knowledge in their work, there are many benefits to health care. It is a valuable resource for health professionals, planners, and policy makers, as well as researchers interested in health information systems and their applicability in different environments."
"Prof. Maria Musoke is an information authority in her own right, who made the most of her sabbatical leave to produce this important resource. Her work encourages us to achieve value for time during periods of research and sabbatical"
"Perennial hard work, dedication to duty, and focused and committed leadership,” further adding “she is endowed with a tickling brain which she has put to good use"
"I believe freedom of expression is a human right just like other rights and I think every judicial officer at every level needs training in human rights, and most certainly on freedom of expression, because it is critical to interpret law within a human rights perspective. We must also remember that freedom of expression is important for democracy, good governance and the rule of law and that these three are really the bedrock of development."
"When we talk about the need to protect journalists, both men and women must be protected. But there is no doubt that women journalists are more vulnerable to certain kinds of violations of rights which perhaps men are not as vulnerable to. It is important to recognize that, when discussing the protection of rights, the groups we talk about are not homogenous. This is the reason why we must talk about violence against women specifically when discussing violence against journalists. In other words actors interested in protecting the human rights of journalists must put on a gender lense and mainstream gender into their work."
"I think the African human rights regime has taken up this issue, which is illustrated in the way the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has expounded on the right to access to information as a tool for socio-economic development. This will have a trickle-down effect as we are dealing with the issues at the regional level. However, it is also important to deal with these issues at the national level through institutions that we all ascribe to, such as the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights and the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, because that jurisprudence cannot be questioned by Member States. I also think that, the fact that social media today has thrived, really helps spreading the information on violations out there."
"I know that these inequalities are reproduced in the family, the community and they are also reproduced in the workplace where we find ourselves as lawyers. Women lawyers can bring about substantive changes not only in the practice of the law, but in the law itself"
"One of the things I realised is that academic work, scholarly work or legal scholarship, is actually an advantage to a person because we are talking about discussing principles of law, especially when you are serving in the highest court, the court which has the last say in dispute resolution."
"We must position women. The feminization of the legal profession will have meaning only if women are positioned in high levels of this practice. Because this is where decisions are made."
"We must be where decisions are made. Of course we know that the legal profession is wide. And a young generation should be aware that there is a possibility that what they are engaged in today, may not be what they will be engaged in decades ahead."
"There is a need to change the social not just the legal understandings of rape in Uganda. Like with any other social phenomena, crime can only be understood by interrogating the broad social context within which it occurs. To understand issues of sexuality and sexual encounters between men and women, it is crucial that the discussion is placed within the discourse of gender in Uganda’s patriarchal society."
"Reducing crime must be preceded by interrogating society’s views on the crime in question. Knowing what society considers acceptable behaviour may explain the prevalence of an offence."
"It only covers sexual assaults of women and does not recognise men as possible victims. It is concerned with the absence of consent either because force was used or because the consent was a result of fraud and falsehood. Prosecutors must also deal with the issue of the state of mind of the accused. If there is no mental fault, it is not regarded as rape. Honest belief in consent is enough to free the accused from criminal liability even if that belief might seem unreasonable."
"Matooke is a very starchy food, more so even than maize or potatoes. We realised we could do more with matooke flour than with maize, if you add matooke flour to wheat or maize flour, you get a better product. With its nutrients it can be used as an alternative to wheat."
"By adding value, farmers can sustainably produce bananas as a food and to increase income."
"I grew up in a family that so much cherished matooke as a food crop and as a child, I started developing a special attachment to the same. However, I later realized that there was not much literature or research done on matooke."
"Uganda is among the top five leading banana producers in the world, with a 30% estimated contribution to the world banana production."
"The establishment of BIRDC has presented to Uganda an opportunity to showcase a variety of tooke products with a unique taste and full nutritional value on the world market. The products exported are branded in such a way that promotes our country and culture on the international scene."
"I call myself a feminist because I am staunch believer in justice for women and the validity of women’s perspectives."
"A fresh struggle to overcome new manifestations of patriarchy is constantly beginning; and it seems a matter of perpetuity."
"Rural women inspire me. They are the passion of my life and I will do everything and anything for their empowerment. Their knowledge and expertise are crying for a receptive ear, for powerful questions that will unearth and challenge their wisdom."
"The change has been tremendous. People now know what the gender agenda is, they might fear it in some places, but they now know."
"If anything were to happen to me today, I have no worries because I know these young women will carry this struggle until we get it right."
"You have to keep your eyes sharp all the time and be very analytical. When you see something coming, you have to ask what it is and how it will affect women."
"Be persistent! Be professional! You don’t have to be aggressive; be persistent, and people will know who you are, where you stand, and what you can’t compromise on. Walk the talk!"
"Build on the strength of women!"
"Society makes you feel useless as a woman and soon you also start believing that you indeed are useless because of not bearing children."
"There are many other important duties a woman can perform in this life."
"This degree is a tribute to the Girl Child, not only in Uganda but the whole of Africa."
"My mother is a retired nurse while my father was a mining engineer. Growing up, I was influenced by many people including my aunt’s friend who was an air hostess. At one point I wanted to be an air hostess. I also aspired to be a news anchor and a high court judge. But along the way, I leaned more towards medicine following in my mother and sister’s footsteps."
"After a long day, I went to present my day’s report to the professor. Because we were meeting at the paediatric ward, I found they had lined up nine dead babies. All had died of measles. I broke down and started crying and on this day I vowed to be part of the team that helps children survive. And I had to work hard. Paediatrics is tough and you need to excel. Undertaking my internship at Nsambya Hospital made me think more and more of doing paediatrics because I had a very good consultant doctor who loved her job and she was so inspirational. She would always be at the ward at 7:30 in the morning, taking care of children."
"Include iron-rich foods in your child’s diet, such as meat, poultry, fish, beans, and iron-fortified foods. Continue serving iron-fortified cereal until your child is eating a variety of iron-rich foods."
"Children and teenagers are encouraged to eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly and sleep for at least 8 hours a day."
"My grandfather, like other Africans of his time, used traditional medicine to treat several ailments. As children, we would be given baths in an extract made from the leaves of the omwoloola tree (Entada abyssinica) to treat skin infections, among other conditions."
"Many of the traditional medicines are scientifically sound treatments. Even the large pharmaceutical companies are picking them from here to be developed into drugs, such as the Ugandan greenheart tree (Warbugia ugandensis), extracts of which have been used to treat coughs and malaria."
"What we are promoting is standardization; to develop the right dose and delivery method for safety and effectiveness. This will also support the development of our economy, because we would get World Health Organization certification for export."
"...my professional interest in traditional medicine was inspired by an eczema rash on my feet that left patches of black and white on my body when I was a university student."
"I feel great that I am in lead of a multi-skilled team of scientists: medical doctors, pharmacists, chemists, laboratory technologists, botanists, sociologists … as principal investigator into a natural formulation used by our communities for over 20 years against viral challenges."
"Despite the debilitating legacies of slavery and colonialism that continue to hold our continent and perpetuate global geopolitical and economic imbalances, I think Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra whereby you strike one and another one that is twice as strong emerges."
"I believe in a just a fair world, where I am not subservient to another because we differ in color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age."
"Our feminism is not qualified by the "Buts ,Ifs Or However" ..You are either a feminist or you are not."
"Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people."
"Now, never underestimate the power of the mind. What African futurism does is harness that power into action. It empowers us to craft the future that we want."
"Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra, but first it needs a decolonial break from the tether that ties its economies to the global capitalist market."
"Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North...[to] gatekeep what qualifies as "legitimate" publishable knowledge."
"For us, Africans who are predominantly described as very oral people, the film medium is a very powerful continuation, in a way, of our orality."
"In a country where demand for higher education is booming, with a demand 50 percent higher than the global average, our universities can offer only a limited number of seats for STEM training, and as a result we find an unfortunately high unemployment rate for university graduates"
"In my humanities work, the technology of film is crucial to my success. It allows for a popular version of my research, a form that everyone can access."
"Each issue of Gender and Development focuses on a topic of key interest to all involved in promoting gender equality through development."
"Insights from development initiatives across the world are shared and analyzed, and lessons identified. Innovative theoretical concepts are investigated by key academic writers, and the uses of these concepts for policy and practice are explored."
"Since 1993, Gender and Development has aimed to promote, inspire, and support development policy and practice, which furthers the goal of equality between women and men."
"issue includes an up-to-date resources section, listing publications, electronic resources, and organizations."
"giving birth appears to be the one thing that still stands in the way of many young women’s career growth and development. That is something to fear"
"first child ending one’s life or putting a long hold on their career. Because even those who become mothers still have a lot to deal with."
"When you think of the number of women who die giving birth per day and year, not because of any serious sickness but just giving birth, it makes you angry."
"We underestimate the barriers that many women face on the basis of their gender that might push them off work."
"Luwedde believes that we belong to a banana republic, where if you need something done, you become part of the solution to fight a problem."
"Birth asphyxia is one of the leading causes of death for neonates worldwide. Lack of an objective cost effective test to predict poor newborn outcomes at birth affects the ability to respond appropriately. This study determined predictive values of umbilical cord arterial lactate in relation to adverse neonatal outcomes."
"Alcohol use among children in low-resource settings has received limited attention. This study investigated the prevalence of and biopsychosocial factors associated with alcohol use among children aged 6 to 13 years enrolled in primary education in Uganda."
"Malaria has a stable perennial transmission across Uganda. Placental malaria is associated with adverse maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes. The factors associated with placental malaria are poorly understood in the study setting."
"Respiratory cryptosporidiosis is considered an occasional, late-stage complication of HIV/AIDS. This study aimed to assess the clinical importance of respiratory cryptosporidiosis in children with diarrhea and respiratory symptoms at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda."
"To assess the effect of an integrated intervention package compared with routine government health services on the frequency of health facility births. Setting Three subcounties of Lira district in Northern Uganda. Design A cluster randomised controlled trial where a total of 30 clusters were randomised in a ratio of 1:1 to intervention..."
"Several young people in Uganda both within the architecture course and outside have told me that they wish to be like me, which I think is a good thing because it sustainably intensifies aspirations for the architecture course, especially for the female gender"
"Lecturing being a timetabled activity allows for ample flexibility. I carry out other activities like involvement in private practice and grants application in between lecture time. It is lots of fun interacting with young people (students), there is a lot to learn from them, and it makes one feel like a child again."
"Young women who wish to pursue a career in architecture and urban planning should know that the course is intense and that they need to manage their time well so that they do not lag behind and thus lose interest in the course. It is okay to mix work and play but it is important to stay on course."
"As an architect/urban planner, my areas of interest include researching human settlement, especially studying informal settlements and low-income housing in a bid to establish how the housing conditions can be improved for the wellbeing of low-income households."
"from one that is being dominated by western models of glass-clad buildings to one where we see diversity in styles. Perhaps in the next ten years, we shall see instruments of our national identity emerging in the form of different traditional motifs appearing often in the architecture around us."
"This project investigates how civil society leaders and movements can develop a critical collective voice on the governance of digitalization of agriculture within the context of food sovereignty. The impact of digitalization on the food system is a growing issue of concern across Africa."
"We are in the early stages of developing a platform where we can continuously share, update, and inform farmers about their rights and about the implications of sharing their data with platforms."
"We also advocate for farmers to ensure that they have control over the technologies being deployed onto them. In the end, the technologies must be farmer-centric, and developed for farmers to meet their needs"
"Digitalization of agriculture has been portrayed by governments and agribusiness as a driving force accelerating agricultural transformation."
"The fact that they have their own income has strengthened their position. In the short term, this gives women a stronger position in their own families. In the long term, it helps to break down archaic social structures."
"We have just concluded a fruitful period. Interestingly, this is not the first time we are having a joint workshop. We have had them in Nairobi before but then, they were back to back and we never really met."
"This is more-so as the grantees and fellows of both programs focus on the broad theme of conflict and peacebuilding in Africa."
"This is important because it helps in consolidating the next generation of Africa’s knowledge producers and professoriate, enabling them know each other better and form life-long, career-enhancing relationships."
"They must read widely as it is a must for their work so that they can determine what the key developments in their field are, and decide on what issues to focus on, or the potential contribution they hope their research will have on their field."
"Fellows and grantees need to understand how other scholars or their peers in a particular field have researched about a subject, or another related subject that they want to work on"
"have to familiarize themselves and be well immersed in the theories addressing a particular field of study or subject-matter."
"fellows and grantees should also realize there is also area-focused knowledge production, which involves locating their works in locally published texts/literature in order to strengthen and locate their field of inquiry in the area and context from which it comes"
"It is therefore very important for fellows and grantees to read and stay informed about the knowledge produced within the Continent and other parts of the world, while also continuously exploring ways of contributing to global knowledge production."
"He wanted to make sure that the son had the same quality of medical education that he’d benefitted from – and that had to include experience in Uganda."
"A key MUYU accomplishment has been the partners’ willingness to extend collaboration to other schools and hospitals in the country."
"We started looking at HIV and TB interaction, and discovered some of the mechanisms of this interaction."
"HIV before the year 1996, we had no ARVs in Uganda. People were dying. Among the people who died was my cousin. She was brought to me in Mulago, I was a physician then. She had HIV, and she had severe pneumonia. We gave her all kinds of antibiotics, we gave her amoxicillin, etc. The girl didn’t survive. She passed on. A couple of years later, we discovered through work done in Uganda that this pneumonia the girl had, was due to an organism, now called PJP, and overtime as research was done in Uganda, we found or confirmed that a simple drug like Septrin could have saved my cousin."
"It looks like a small change, but it’s a big change. Who wants to take tablets for six months? Wouldn’t you rather take them for four months? But that is still not enough. We are looking at how we can shorten it even further. In fact, we are competing with our colleagues in HIV care. We say people in HIV care only started their work yesterday, but now, they are doing test and treat."
"A blood test for detecting tuberculosis. Because once we find that, we can have a simple strip, better see if that blood test can detect the degree of tuberculosis organisms in your body, because that would be a game changer if we found it. We are working on it, we’re not yet there. But we have hope that one day it will be found."
"Now, many cancers in early stages can be treated at our Cancer Institute."
"Some of the creeping impacts of this triple crisis are possibly the most debilitating: Africa is the most severely impacted region by desertification and land degradation, with approximately 45% of its land area affected."
"Africa is the world’s youngest continent, and its talents and resources are huge."
"The continent is poised to demonstrate that through unity and coordinated action, it can lead the world towards a more just and sustainable future."
"The potential is evident on multiple other issues as well: an Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa brings together countries like Kenya, Ethiopia, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy across the continent and driving green industrialization."
"At the same time, there is a strong need for greater investment in science-policy interfaces, to better anticipate droughts and other environmental disasters by applying the best available scientific tools and adaptation measures."
"I don't have those emotional stories. I did not face challenges as such... God planned my story well."
"In science, you are dealing with facts. You prove them or dispute them, not the complicated stories of wars that happened before we were born."
""From Standard One, dad gave us over 100 mathematical numbers to solve every holiday. That is how we got used to mathematics"."
""Finding scientific solutions to key problems affecting society, like maternal and infant mortality, malnutrition among mothers, children, and people living with HIV, is the most beneficial research one can ever do"."
""The natural products industry in Africa has existed since time immemorial, but we need to rethink how to make things better. When you go through Kampala streets, many people are packaging in polythene and others. So we need to rethink and find a way of getting away with this polythene and standardize our products"."
""I accepted without hesitation because I trust myself and have the confidence that I can do anything and deliver appropriately"."
"If it's time for work or study, be serious, be the best. Then go out, dance, have fun-enjoy life to the fullest"
"African society had lost out completely in the collapsing of all other forms of learning and education systems into one education system, the Western model, collapsing this further into the "narrow process" of schooling."
"China, India, South Africa and Brazil are forming a new front to push for a new agenda in the transformation of global relations."
"I have a big network of friends and professional associates in Belgium."
"I will be pleased to represent my country at all events."
"With your love and knowledge about Uganda and through your various contacts and friendships in Belgium, we are confident that we will benefit greatly."
"I did not have much vision, I did not even look up to something because I did not have hopes of going to secondary school, so how could I have a dream when I was not seeing any future."
"I can describe my background as simply from grass to grace."
"Dear Esteemed Bishop Stuart University Staff, and the general public, I greet you all in the mighty name of Jesus."
"It's been an enriching experience and a great honor serving Bishop Stuart University community with you, esteemed Staff and friends."
"With unemployment, poor feeding, diabetes, hypertension linked to stress, erectile disfunctions are on the increase in Uganda, that's why the people go for this plant."
"In Uganda more than 15 million students and higher education institutions were affected by COVID-19."
"It was evident that there was a lot of unpreparedness across the country."
"When lockdown came, three-quarters of private higher education institutions were unable to pay their staff salaries."
"Most students accessed their learning materials on their mobile phones. Zoom, Microsoft, Skype, Moodle and Google Classroom were among the most common platforms used for e-learning. Students from 15 to 25 years of age were eager to use online learning. “Even if COVID-19 remains, we will have it easier to transit to online with new students."
"We need to rebrand courses and be ready to run joint programmes."
"Through these projects or activities, a total of 409 technologies, innovations and management practices have been generated."
"Improving their capacity in engaging in productive and profitable agriculture; assisting in opening up market opportunities for farmers to buy farm inputs and sell their products ; enhancing their productivity leading to improved access to food; nutrition and improved income as well as wealth creation for the household."
"eight million individuals in each householder of an average of six family members have benefited."
"The CRPs are the principal point of engagement with the CGIAR."
"In the age before , A woman's places is in the kitchen."
"A woman educated is a nation trained."
"I'm 1954, I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in History."
"I have since been recognised as the first woman university graduate from East and Central Africa."
"anyone would be mad enough to overthrow their king"
"I’d still like every woman to know that you can fight any battle, if it’s worth listening to."
"He ask me to marry him. I accepted him marriage proposal."
"We led a good life until he died a natural death."
"Our mission is to prepare students to be lifelong learners."
"we provide an exceptional learning environment for our students and staff."
"We strive to apply our knowledge and skills to promote social economic transformation."
"I invite you to explore our website to learn more about our academic offerings, research endeavors, and the many ways we are making an impact."
"Our dedicated faculty contribute significantly by creating a supportive learning environment, delivering quality teaching, and providing thoughtful mentoring, all of which ensure our students’ future success."
"Let's institutionalize KIBALO in our life journeys, 10 medical students could come together to establish a clinic, 10 Agriculturalist could start a farm on one acre, 10 lawyers could start a law firm."
"Once the university admits PWDs, it has the duty to give them accessible learning environment and put necessary modifications to facilitate their learning and each ones roles need to be defined."
"It is illegal to call the new leader Bishop before his installation."
"Every diocese has one Bishop, there is nothing like the outgoing and the new Bishop. The newly elected leader is still Rev. Can. Enos Kitto Kagodo until Bishop Ssebaggala hands the power to him."
"The School of Law continues to strive towards attaining the set outcomes of the law program in accordance with the Mission and Vision which is producing law graduates who are able to carry out legal research and give advice on applicable legal principles to Government departments, the private sector and individuals."
"“I told myself if I want to do good clinical research I need to be a good physician. And to be a good doctor meant I needed to go back for more training.”"
"We noticed a lot of women were lacking the soft skills, things like management, leadership, budgeting. In addition to those things, mentors talk about the different strategies they used to advance their career.”"
"“So we had senior women scientists speak to the junior women about the obstacles unique to women,” she says. “And that’s how I came to apply for the TDR grant.”"
"had a mentorship programme in place,” she says, “but it wasn’t very strong or well publicized"
"Despite progress, youth with disabilities still face barriers to fully participating in society, including accessing education and leadership growth opportunities like YALI fellowships. From online applications lacking accessibility features to prohibitive technology costs, hurdles restrict inclusion at every step."
"Through celebrating diverse experiences, the program can create welcoming environments where all young African leaders thrive. I am committed to ensuring no youth is left out of this transformative opportunity due to identity, ability or circumstances.”"
"Overcoming a speech and language disability, I have emerged as a powerful advocate for disability rights in Uganda. The YALI Fellowships transformed my life, nurturing my personal growth and empowering me to harness my strengths."
"With newfound confidence and honed public speaking skills, I have championed increased educational and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities."
"My efforts have yielded significant progress, including expanding affirmative action slots for disabled students at public universities, introducing a scholarship scheme for disabled students at Makerere University Business School, and securing employment for disabled individuals at MUBS."
"I liked the children and the mothers. Children are special. When they are unwell, they are sad. When they are better, they smile. They are very honest. I thought working in pediatrics would be satisfying"
"But a deeper reason for becoming a lecturer was that as a resident I was involved in teaching medical students, and I loved it."
"As a medical student I remember being timid when no one was available to help me in the wards. As a resident I looked for these kinds of students, so I could give them an opportunity to learn. I was able to be there for them because I know that it can be a bit frightening if there's no one to help you."
"the way I teach is to always ask students questions as opposed to giving them information. I always challenge them to think. I noticed that the students in my firm did very well in my area. Some of them came back for postgraduate training in pediat"
"Even then I wanted standards to help us in assessing the students. I wanted all of us to have something look at as we examined the students to make our evaluations more objective. I tried to introduce new topics that I thought were more relevant. Most of what I suggested was out of instinct. I was always looking out for the students. At meetings I would speak up for the students."
"I realized that sometimes our curriculum committee didn't listen well enough to other people. If I had it to do over, I would have involved others more and showed them that I was listening to their concerns and addressing their concerns."
"People eat either too many calories, or they eat things that have too much salt in them, or they eat things that have too much fat in them."
"A bigger problem is the value of research to society, especially to the communities from which the data is collected. Because research is conceptualized without input from African researchers and other stakeholders, it ends up being of academic value only, without taking into account how the results could help shape policy and practice."
"In addition, the fact that we are an independent research institution, rather than a government-run organisation, makes it harder to forge and maintain long-term relationships with policy makers, especially those in government."
"am affected by the dysfunction in the global health system whereby problems and their solutions are defined by ‘experts’, who don’t have any lived experiences and who have a poor understanding of the local context."
"The reason why inequalities persist is because we pay lip service to equity. The sustainable development goals (SDG) framework and its various instruments have equity as a key feature. As a result, equity is prominent in global commitments and national health policy framework – but only on paper."
"As a researcher, it is much more difficult to make a case as to why certain areas are worth addressing, when the global health community is focused largely on the few pet issues that are deemed worth funding and investigating"
"The gratification from healing someone’s pain or saving a life of someone near death is indescribable. Having said that, Africa needs scientists, tens of thousands of scientists that can help in identifying the problems that cause ill health among the continent’s people, and lasting solutions to those problems."
"They say their patients don’t have those issues and don’t want you to screen them because they don't want it to be known that the patients they care for may have an alcohol problem or depression,”"
"It’s no joke. These symptoms can become severe. If someone feels useless and hopeless, they feel they don’t need to take care of their families or their children."
"We teach them how to challenge negative thoughts. We call that unhelpful ways of thinking. We teach them to replace unhelpful ways of thinking with helpful ways of thinking.”"
"They don’t need to take the medication. They have no motivation. That’s what the depression does. They couldn’t take care of themselves and could not go to work.”"
"Given how few trained mental health providers there are in Uganda, one-on-one therapy just wouldn't be practical, "So I had the idea to have a group therapy intervention."
"We were surprised because we had thought maybe people wouldn't want to come, or maybe they wouldn't want to be seen with each other due to stigma,But they actually wanted something like this — so badly."
"I felt like we were accomplices in this war of sorts. People say we do not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. I did not want to accept that it was beyond hope.’"
"I would often see women who had had four or more Caesarean sections with no living child – they continued exposing themselves to the danger until they had a baby,’"
"It’s been called the ‘silent killer’ because many women cannot feel the danger sign that their blood pressure is rising until it’s too late. Even when it is detected the only course of action is constant monitoring, and ultimately the only cure is delivery – sometimes at too early a stage for the baby to survive,’"
"The placenta must invade the mother enough to access nourishment for the growing baby, yet not so much as to penetrate through the uterus"
"But why would women of African descent suffer so much more from pre-eclampsia than other women? ‘There was an assumption in Africa that there was a socioeconomic reason, like poverty,’"
"Placentation is a setting up of the territorial boundary between two genetically different individuals – the mother and her baby, who carries genes from the father. It needs to be in exactly the right place for both to survive and thrive.’"
"Because of the high rates of maternal mortality, a coping mechanism among Ugandan women is to consider pregnancy as being about bravery and fortitude"
"researchers and policymakers can, among other things, "interpret the data together, make sure the interpretation is appropriate, and tease out the actions they're going to take.""
"The challenge is you might not be funded to do everything they ask you to do, but sometimes you find things that are easy to integrate without necessarily spending much."
"Sometimes I find that we make a lot of assumptions about what they need to know. Before we even begin to craft our research questions, we need to understand what they're struggling with and ensure that we are aligned to their needs as we gather evidence."
"If you are working with data that the government routinely collects, you need to be engaged with policymakers in terms of how you're going to use that data and that you are actually going to add value and do a good quality analysis that will help them answer their questions"
"Follow your dreams and the rest will follow. Being a social entrepreneur is often a journey of hills and valleys, and very fulfilling if you always keep your goals in sight."
"If you make the community feel that you care about them, then there’s less need to fight them."
"Disease transmission goes in both directions."
"We have already disrupted the natural way of life."
"The wildlife authority was established in an era of fences and fines in the ’50s."
"People poach because they’re hungry, they have no other alternative."
"I am glad that the One Health approach is being seen as a viable approach to conservation, that’s great."
"I would like to expand our impact to other countries in Africa where gorillas are found and other parts of Uganda where gorillas are not found, working with local stakeholders. Something else I feel strongly about is to help increase the number of women leaders in conservation through my role on the leadership council of Women for the Environment – Africa, and leaders of color in conservation in my role as the Vice President of the African Primatological Society that is building African leadership in primate research and conservation."
"It is important to choose a career based on something you truly care about because when the going gets tough, what keeps you going is your passion and purpose. I have found that you will never be able to please everyone all of the time, especially if you want to make a difference and change the world. When you work alone you go fast, when you work with others you go far; I have learnt the importance of teamwork, having a motivated team, and building partnerships with external stakeholders. As a founder of an NGO and social enterprise, I have also learnt to place values ahead of talent when hiring people. On a personal note, I have learnt how important it is to be an authentic leader, and strive to develop a healthy work/life balance. when asked what she wish to know before her career."
"I see myself stepping down from being the CEO of our NGO and social enterprise and devoting more of my time on the Board, spending more time growing as a leader and mentoring my team, and others in my sector. I also see myself spending more time advocating for our approach to a wider audience in Africa and the rest of the world. I am humbled to be a finalist of the 2020 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leadership Prize because of our One Health approach to Conservation. . When she was asked "where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?""
"Veterinary training enables you to impact many sectors if you would like to take up these amazing opportunities. It has been a truly interesting and rewarding journey for me to be able to make a difference in conservation, public health, tourism, and agriculture sectors through my training as a veterinarian. . Her advice to budding vets."
"Enjoy parenthood, don’t try to be a perfect parent, spend as much time as possible with your children because they change so fast during the first few years and two decades of their life, and you don’t want to miss many of those moments in helping to shape their values. My eldest son recognised his first elephant at the age of two, in the national park, not in a storybook. Let them follow their passion and be who they want to be and encourage them to be authentic, build their leadership qualities, and fulfill their potential in life. I am truly indebted to my mother, who on top of being a hands-on mother and grandmother, encouraged me to follow my dream to pursue a career with animals because she realised that from an early age, I hated to see them suffering, and even when being a Vet in Uganda was not a profession that paid well, and I am truly indebted to her for that. . Her advice to parents."
"Finally, happiness is…"
"Governance is my passion and for me, it’s an opportunity to serve. MTN is a listed company and I have worked in the capital markets area for a very long time and so it’s an opportunity to make a real contribution."
"For MTN, they have been around for like 24 years, this should be their 25th and this should be the turning point and milestone as a listed company. For me, it’s an interesting opportunity to walk this journey with MTN as a listed company."
"MTN’s board welcomes Prof. Kiryabwire to the team and expresses confidence that her wealth of experience and expertise will be invaluable in helping the company achieve its strategic goals and objectives."
"I note that the letter (from the USE CEO) does not disclose the reasons for termination of my contract, which is renewable every three years. You will also note that during the last three years my performance has been satisfactory."
"I therefore had a legitimate expectation that my contract would be renewed for a further period of three years. In my view the manner in which my contract was terminated was unlawful"
"Failure to follow procedures renders such decisions improper and unlawful"
"Furthermore, as an institution that is expected to be at the forefront of the drive for good corporate governance and best practice; and requires its listed entities to abide by the highest corporate standards and which is viewed as a beacon; the failure to observe these basic norms in human resources and general management is an indictment on the institutional practices of USE that if not nipped in the bud will set a precedent for the future."
"Our mandate was to transform the city and resuscitate it. *For the last so many decades, the city had degenerated in service delivery, in infrastructure, in basically every area because of poor administration."
"When the law was changed and the KCCA was created, it was done with the intention of addressing the challenges the city was facing."
"We came in to put Kampala back on its feet."
"We are also working on social issues, such as the welfare of the people in the city. We are looking at creating jobs for low-income families and we are looking at improving household nutrition through agriculture programs."
"We have been creating workspaces, building markets and creating jobs. We’ve set up an employment services bureau for the youth."
"Our target is to plant a million trees within the next five years."
"The idea is to make Kampala attractive, which it wasn’t before."
"It was more like a transit point for other parks of Uganda."
"We are working on making Kampala an attractive destination in and of itself for business, for tourists, and for people living and working in the city."
"We are already a role model."
"We have received a lot of interest from other municipalities in Uganda."
"Rural-urban migration is going to continue to be a challenge, as long as the other urban centers in the country are not providing similar opportunities."
"We hope that by government working with other agencies will be able to address this."
"The government is already looking at placing industries outside Kampala."
"The working population is attracted to these alternatives."
"A lot of countries and organizations are interested in what we’re doing."
"We have had the opportunity to address Kampala’s issues and highlight Kampala’s progress all over the world."
"It was scary, some of us were attacked, some of my staff were physically beaten up."
"It made me realize that if they're willing to put up a fight this big, that means what they're losing is also very big."
"That even gave us more determination and made us resolute to fight for the benefit of the citizens."
"When we're entrusted with leadership, we're entrusted with responsibility to make change where change needs to be made."
"I don’t know why Ugandans congratulate people on government jobs."
"It’s not a privilege. It’s a responsibility. I’m not one to celebrate appointments."
"would rather celebrate when I have finished my assignment well and people are appreciative of what I have done."
"I think it is a Baganda thing where people think “Ogudde mu bintu."
"That you are suddenly going to get rich."
"You lose money by being in public service."
"You lose business, you lose your social engagements."
"It’s a sacrifice because you don’t have time do something else."
"My take home is about Shs21m. That is after tax, so it cannot be 46m with taxes inclusive. Because people are so used to saying I get 46m, maybe someone should give it to me."
"We found that the death rate was 25 times higher in children with CP, compared to the general non-CP population sample. In the CP group, females, and older children (10-18 years) had the highest relative risks of death in relation to the non-CP general population. Furthermore, in children with CP, there was an almost 7 times risk of death in those with severe motor impairments compared to those with milder ones."
"This award highlights the importance of neurodevelopmental disorders which are a great health problem worldwide, often diagnosed late and treated poorly, It affirms my contribution to science in Africa, strengthens advocacy for gender equity in science and education and makes me a role model for others, increasing my influence in the scientific community."
"These results show that Universal Health Coverage is just a slogan, and health care and schooling are not reaching these children."
"Not every site has the capacity to do what we do in Mulago and Kawempe.Some mothers don't start treatment at the required time."
"Some of the women get the disease during pregnancy and they don't know about it, so they end up producing a child with HIV.Some of them take the medicine when they want This makes the viral load very high, increasing the risk of transmission to the baby."
"If you look at the group,we follow at MUJHU,3,000,the prevalence of mother -to-child transmission of HIV is at zero percent.None of them transmitted the virus to the baby.They are on treatment and are followed regularly (by our health workers).But the national prevalence is at around 5 percent."