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Early Career Investigators

2025

Dr. Denis Kimbugwe

IMPAACT Early Career Investigators ProgramDr. Denis Kimbugwe

Early Career Investigator
Project: Systemic inflammation in pregnant and postpartum mothers with HIV and their children: relationship with child growth (utilizing data from IMPAACT 1077BF and 1077FF)
Dr. Grace Ahimbisibwe

IMPAACT Early Career Investigators program Dr. Grace Ahimbisibwe

Early Career Investigator
Project: Assessing the Effects of Immune Suppression of Pregnancy on the HIV Latent Reservoir in African Women with HIV Participating in P1078
Dr. Gerald Businge

IMPRINT Network Visiting FellowshipDr. Gerald Businge

Visiting Fellowship
Project: Visiting FS: Comparative evaluation of early measles vaccination schedules: An immunogenicity assessment in Ugandan infants vaccinated at 6 or 9 months of age
Dr. Robert Baldwin Mboizi

IMPRINT Network Visiting FellowshipDr. Robert Baldwin Mboizi

Visiting Fellowship
Project: Visiting FS: Optimising eligibility criteria for participant selection in maternal vaccine trials in low-resource settings

2024

Dr. Rita Nakalega

HPTN Scholars ProgramDr. Rita Nakalega

2024 International
Project: Exploring the correlates of non-disclosure of HIV-positive status in the population cohort at 2 years (HPTN 071)
Dr. Patience Atuhaire

IMPAACT Early Career Investigators program awardDr. Patience Atuhaire

Early Career Investigator Awardee
Project: TORCHES and relation to Preterm Delivery and Low birth weight among pregnant women living with HIV and their babies in the IMPAACT 1077BF trial.
Dr. Catherine Nakaye

NIH Global Health Fellowship ProgramDr. Catherine Nakaye

Early Career Investigator Awardee
Project: DROP-D Study "Feasibility, acceptability and persistence of community drug shop-based HIV self-testing and oral PREP delivery among Women at risk of HIV in Kitebi, Kampala"

2023

Brenda Kakayi

IMPAACT Early Career Investigators Program awardBrenda Kakayi

Early Career Investigators awardee
Project : Insulin-like growth factor/growth hormone axis alterations and stunting in HIV-exposed uninfected children from the 1077BF/P1084s study.
Dr. Phiona Kibalama

2023 InternationalDr. Phiona Kibalama

HPTN Scholars Program
Project : Exploring correlations between contraceptive use and PrEP adherence to inform integrated service delivery among young women in Southern Africa: a secondary analysis from HPTN-082
Dr. Ronnie Kasirye

The James Hakim International HIV Investigator Mentoring Program (IHIMP) AwardDr. Ronnie Kasirye

2023-2025 IHIMP awardee (under ACTG)
Project : Hospitalization Rates and Associated Factors Among Older Adults with HIV.