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Training Manuals
HAY! (Healthy Adolescents and Young People) Community Provider Manual (2023)
HAY! (Healthy Adolescents and Young People) Clinical Provider Manual (2024)
Community Health Facilitator Manual (2022)
Village Health Team Maternal Newborn and Child Health Training Manual (2015)
Community Development Manual (2011)
Healthy Child Uganda: Trainers Manual for Community Owned Resource Persons (2006)
Healthy Child Uganda: CORPs Manual (2006)
Implementation Packages
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Peer-Reviewed Publication
Other Publication
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Ashaba, S., et al. Factors Impacting Sustainability of Community Health Worker Programming in rural Uganda: A Qualitative Study. 2020 March.
Larsen-Rosner, S., Kyomuhangi, T., Kyokushaba, C. Experiences With Village Health Teams Income Generating Activities. 2020 Sept.
Kyomuhangi, T. A mothers fear from Uganda: A story told and lessons to be learned; 2018 Aug. 23 – 24
Neema CM, et al. Socio-economic factors affecting access and use of MNCH services among Vulnerable Women in Southwestern Uganda. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2019, Mbarara, Uganda.
William W, et al. Let All Know: Insights from a digital storytelling facilitator training in Uganda. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2019, Mbarara, Uganda, . (Oral)
Warnock T, et al. Evaluating an undergraduate community engagement-focused global health field school in rural Uganda: assessing student and community outcomes. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2019, Mbarara, Uganda, (Poster)
Arubaku W,et al. Collaborative curriculum design and implementation for Global student community engagement: experiences of MUST faculty and UC. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2019, Mbarara, Uganda, . (Oral)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Implementing Community-Driven Healthcare Delivery Services” A Case Study of SOPETAR Innovation by Health Child Uganda in South Western Uganda. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2019, Mbarara, Uganda, (Oral)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Medium-term Effect of an Intervention to Strengthen Capacity of Health Facility Governance Committees in Rural Uganda: A Qualitative perspective. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2019, Mbarara, Uganda, . (Oral)
Beinempaka F, et al. Community Health Workers’ Solutions To Challenges In Their Work: A case study of Bushenyi and Rubirizi districts. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2019, Mbarara, Uganda, (Oral)
Murembe N, et al. Understanding Vulnerability of Women In Accessing and Utilizing MNCH Services in Western Uganda: An Intersectionality Approach. Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando Scientific Conference 2019, Mwanza, Tanzania. (Oral)
Tumuhimbise M, et al. Factors Affecting sustainability of community Health Worker interventions: A Case Study of Bushenyi and Rubirizi Districts, Uganda, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando Scientific Conference 2019, Mwanza, Tanzania. (Oral)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Medium-term Effect of an Intervention to Strengthen Capacity of Health Facility Governance Committees in Rural Uganda: A Qualitative perspective. Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando Scientific Conference 2019, Mwanza, Tanzania. (Poster)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Implementing Community-Driven Healthcare Delivery Services: A Case Study of SOPETAR Innovation by Health Child Uganda in South Western Uganda. Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando Scientific Conference 2019, Mwanza, Tanzania (Poster)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Medium-term effect of an intervention to strengthen capacity of Health Facility Governance Committees in rural Uganda: A qualitative perspective. 25th Canadian Conference on Global Health, Ottawa. (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al. “Digital Storytelling: Enabling vulnerable adolescents and women to share their own experiences globally”. Presentation. Canadian Conference on Global Health, Ottawa. (Oral)
Nakazibwe P, et al. Understanding vulnerability of women in accessing and utilizing MNCH services in Western Uganda: An intersectionality approach. Uganda Society for Health Scientists 19th Annual Scientific Conference, 2019, Kampala, Uganda, . (Oral)
Beinempaka F,et al. Community Health Workers’ solutions to challenges in their work a case study of Bushenyi and Rubirizi districts. Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) 1st Annual Community Health Conference, Mbarara, Uganda, 2019. (Poster)
Turyakira E, et al. Influence of a Maternal Newborn Child Health Intervention on Care-Seeking Decision-Making by Vulnerable Women. Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) 1st Annual Community Health Conference , Mbarara, Uganda, 2019. (Oral)
Nakazibwe P, et al. Understanding vulnerability of women in accessing and utilizing MNCH services in Western Uganda: An intersectionality approach. Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) 1st Annual Community Health Conference , Mbarara, Uganda, 2019. (Oral)
Tumuhimbise M, et al. Barriers to sustainability of community Health Workers’ activities in the community: A Case Study of Bushenyi and Rubirizi Districts, Uganda. Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) 1st Annual Community Health Conference , Mbarara, Uganda, 2019. (Oral)
Yu S, Kyomuhangi T, et al. Medium-term Retention of Volunteer Community Health Workers in Rural SW Uganda. Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Chicago, 2019. (Oral)
Yu S, et al. Medium-term Retention of Volunteer Community Health Workers in Rural SW Uganda. MUST Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2018, Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Ludwick T, et al. Supportive supervision and constructive relationships with healthcare workers support CHW performance: Use of a qualitative framework to evaluate CHW programming in Uganda. Mbarara University of Science and Technology Annual Research Dissemination Conference 2018, Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. The Feasibility and Acceptability of Digital Storytelling in Southwestern Uganda: A Community-Based Pilot. Mbarara University of Science and Technology Annual Research Dissemination Conference, Mbarara, Uganda. 2018. (Oral)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Obuntism in Relation to Community Health Work in Southwestern Uganda. 3rd Annual Global Child Health Unit Conference, Calgary, 2018. (Oral)
Ludwick T, et al. Supportive supervision and constructive relationships with healthcare workers support CHW performance: Use of a qualitative framework to evaluate CHW programming in Uganda. Human Resources for Health, 2018
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Obuntism in Relation to Community Health Work in Southwestern Uganda. 1st International Symposium on Community Health Workers. Kampala, 2017. (Oral)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. What Community Health Workers Say About Their own Motivation! 1st International Symposium on Community Health Workers. Kampala, 2017 (Oral)
Brenner JL, et alJ. Process Evaluation of a District-Led Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH) Scale-up Initiative of Community Health Worker Programming. 1st International Symposium on Community Health Workers. Kampala, 2017. (Oral)
Muganga G, et al. Evaluation of the performance and sustainability of the Community Owned Resource Persons Child Survival Intervention in Kashari county, Mbarara district. 1st International Symposium on Community Health Workers. Kampala, 2017. (Poster)
Turyakira E, et al. District Scale Up of an Integrated Maternal Child Health Initiative through CHWs in Rural Southwestern Uganda: Pre-Post Intervention Coverage Survey Results. 1st International Symposium on Community Health Workers. Kampala, 2017. (Oral)
Ludwick T, et al. Conditions for CHW Effectiveness: An evidence and Experience-Based Framework. 1st International Symposium on Community Health Workers. Kampala, 2017. (Oral)
Hobbs A, et al. High retention of Community Health Workers in a rural district in Southwestern Uganda. 1st International Symposium on Community Health Workers. Kampala, 2017. (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al. District scale-up of an integrated MNCH initiative in rural southwest Uganda: Pre-post intervention coverage survey. International Pediatric Association Congress, 2016, Vancouver, Canada (Oral).
Ludwick T, et al. Assessing Community Health Worker Team Performance in Bushenyi District, Uganda. Canadian Conference on Global Health Montreal, Quebec, 2015, and Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2015, Mexico City, Mexico. (Oral)
Kabakyenga J, et al. Mobile phone deployment to support therapeutic choices for children in Uganda. International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. 17th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology; 2014; Cape Town, South Africa. (Poster) / Uganda Society For Health Scientists’ 15th Annual Scientific Conference. 2014; Kampala, Uganda. (Poster)
Brenner JL, et al. Can volunteer community health workers in rural Uganda provide integrated community case management? Canadian Paediatric Society 91st Annual Conference. 2014 ; Montreal, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2014 Jun/July;19(6):e106. (Poster) / Uganda Society For Health Scientists’ 15th Annual Scientific Conference. 2014; Kampala, Uganda. (Oral)
Mercader HFG, et al. Acceptability of computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) for maternal and child health data collection in rural Southwest Uganda. Uganda Society For Health Scientists’ 15th Annual Scientific Conference. 2014 ; Kampala, Uganda. (Oral) / Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute Symposium. 2014 ; Calgary, Canada. (Poster)
Turyakira E, et al. Profile of newly selected and trained Village Health Team (VHT) members in Bushenyi District, Uganda. Uganda Society For Health Scientists’ 15th Annual Scientific Conference. 2014; Kampala, Uganda. (Poster)
Turyakira E, et al. Status of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) in Bushenyi District, Uganda. Uganda Society For Health Scientists’ 15th Annual Scientific Conference. 2014; Kampala, Uganda. (Poster)
Maling S, et al. Integrated community case management: can Village Health Volunteers trained in ICCM of childhood illness improve access to care for Africa’s most vulnerable children? A case of Kyabugimbi sub county-Bushenyi district. Mbarara University of Science and Technology 8th Annual Research Dissemination Conference; 2012; Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Maling S, et al. Motorcycle ambulance. MUST 8th Annual Research Dissemination Conference; 2012; Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al Scaling up comprehensive maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programming to create a model district in Bushenyi, Uganda: baseline findings. Mbarara University of Science and Technology 8th Annual Research Dissemination Conference; 2012; Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Maling S, et al. Bushenyi and Rubirizi districts health facility assessment for newborn health care services standards. MUST 8th Annual Research Dissemination Conference; 2012; Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al. Comprehensive maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) baseline indicators for creation of a model district in Bushenyi. MUST 8th Annual Research Dissemination Conference; 2012; Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Ntaro M, et al. Influence of community owned resources persons on malnutrition in children less than two years old in Mbarara and Bushenyi districts in southwestern Uganda. MUST 8th Annual Research Dissemination Conference; 2012; Mbarara, Uganda. (Oral)
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Healthy Child Uganda: creating a reproducible, low cost, Village Health Volunteer model to promote child and maternal survival in rural Uganda. Development Partnerships in Higher Education Best Practice and Lessons Learnt Workshop; 2012; Nairobi, Kenya. (Oral)
Miles L, et al. Health care seeking behavior in rural Uganda: does maternal education level make a difference? Canadian Society for International Health Annual Conference; 2011; Ottawa, Canada. (Poster)
Paquette M, et al. How do patterns of bed net use compare between communities receiving bed net distribution & malaria education and control communities in rural southwestern Uganda. Canadian Paediatric Society 88th Annual Conference; 2011 Jun 15-18; Quebec City, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2011 Jun/July;16(Suppl A):14A. (Oral) / Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting; 2011; Denver, USA. (Poster)
Brenner JL, et al. High retention and success of volunteer community health workers promoting child health in rural Uganda. Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting; 2011; Denver, USA. (Oral)
Bortolussi R, et al. “Micro-research” for developing countries: borrowing from the microfinance experience. Canadian Paediatric Society 87th Annual Conference; 2010 ; Vancouver, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2010 May/Jun;15(Suppl A):56A. (Poster
Ludwick T, et al. Selection, retention and motivation of Village Health Volunteers in rural southwestern Uganda. Canadian Paediatric Society 86th Annual Conference; 2009 Ottawa, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2009 May/Jun;14(Suppl A):47A. (Oral)
McMillan D, et al. Child-related case-based scenarios to evaluate educational needs of Village Health Volunteers in rural Uganda. Poster presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting; 2008; Honolulu, USA.
Kyomuhangi T, et al. Selection, retention, and motivation of village health volunteer educators in rural southwestern Uganda. The Network: Towards Unity for Health Annual Conference; 2007 ; Kampala, Uganda. (Oral)
Kayizzi J, et al. Healthy Child Uganda: three years experience of comprehensive, community-based child health education. The Network: Towards Unity for Health Annual Conference; 2007; Kampala, Uganda. (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al. A snapshot of child health in southwestern Uganda through local eyes: reports from CHW in Healthy Child Uganda project communities. The Network: Towards Unity for Health Annual Conference; 2007 ; Kampala, Uganda. (Oral)
Ruzaaza G, et al. Case-oriented problems with identification of barriers and enhancers to child health in southwestern Uganda. The Network: Towards Unity for Health Annual Conference; 2007 ; Kampala, Uganda. (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al. Mothers report high child mortality and large burden of illness in rural Uganda. Canadian Paediatric Society 84th Annual Conference; 2007; Montreal, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2007 May/Jun;12(Suppl A). (Poster) / Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting; 2007 ; Toronto, Canada. (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al. Child health knowledge and practices of mothers in rural Uganda. Canadian Paediatric Society 84th Annual Conference; 2007 ; Montreal, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2007 May/Jun;12(Suppl A). (Poster) / Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting; 2007 ; Toronto, Canada. (Poster)
Kayizzi J, et al. Strengthening child health in rural Uganda: Healthy Child Uganda project. International Students’ Convention on Child Health; 2006 ; Kampala, Uganda. (Poster)
Kayizzi J, et al. A comparison of child nutritional status, illness frequency, and health practices in three health sub-districts in southwestern Uganda. Canadian Society for International Health Annual Conference; 2006 ; Ottawa, Canada. (Poster)
McElroy T, et al. Maternal report of child morbidity and mortality: results of a comprehensive child health baseline assessment in rural Uganda. Canadian Society for International Health Annual Conference; 2006; Ottawa, Canada. (Poster)
Nyakato V, et al. Being a child in Uganda. The Network: Towards Unity for Health Annual Conference; 2006 Sep 9-14; Ghent, Belgium. (Poster)
Brenner JL, et al. CPS-MUST Child Health Project after one year: a model of community-based child health education. Canadian Paediatric Society 82nd Annual Conference; 2005 ; Vancouver, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2005 May/Jun;10(Suppl B). (Oral)
Brenner JL, et al. Comprehensive community-based child health education in Uganda: a pilot project. 11th Annual Child Health Research Symposium; 2005 ; Calgary, Canada. (Poster
Brenner JL, et al. A situational analysis of child health in CPS-MUST Project communities in southwestern Uganda. Canadian Paediatric Society 81st Annual Meeting; 2004 ; Montreal, Canada. Paediatric Child Health 2004 May/Jun;9(Suppl A). (Poster)