Prof David Mukunya

Prof David Mukunya is an epidemiologist specializing in maternal and child health epidemiology and conditions of public health importance in low-income countries. Together with local and international partners, he has coordinated several community and health facility cohorts to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of complex public health interventions. He was a project manager of the Survival-Pluss Trial a cluster RCT that assessed the impact of peer-counselling, mama kits, and mobile phone messages in promoting health facility births; the paper is currently in press. The team is completing a cluster randomized controlled trial in Eastern Uganda involving 6,000 mama-baby pairs assessing the effectiveness of alcohol-based hand-rub in preventing childhood infections (https://rdcu.be/dpQrC), and is starting an RCT of the effectiveness of emollients in reducing deaths and infections among very low birth weight infants. As a result, I have so far published over 100 manuscripts, supervised six master’s students to completion, and I am currently supervising three PhD students. I am also interested in medical education and have recently completed a project on AI and Medical Education in Uganda.