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Mr Kenneth Roger Katumba

Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Public Health & Policy

United Kingdom

Currently working on my PhD research, using behavioural economics and the economics of sex work to investigate the role that biases to human behaviour play in the relationships between HIV prevention and vulnerabilities (individual, interpersonal, and structural) experienced by female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya. I am a health economist at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, where I have carried out a range of health economics activities including cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions, wellbeing research, quality of life valuation studies, capacity building for health economics research, and strengthening policy uptake of research. I have a Master of Public Health degree from the EHESP French School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Economics degree from Makerere University, Kampala. I have experience from France, West and East Africa.

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I have tutored and supervised masters students at the LSHTM, and delivered short health economics courses in Uganda.

Research

Behavioural economics
Behaviour change
Economics of sex work
Mixed methods
Health economics
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted disease
Uganda

Selected Publications

Economic burden of depressive disorders and HIV for people living with HIV in Uganda.
Katana, PV; ROSS, I; Kiconco, BE; Tenywa, P; NEUMAN, M; Ssembajjwe, W; Sekitoleko, I; KATUMBA, KR; Kinyanda, E; Laurence, YV; GRECO, G;
2026
Health policy and planning
Assessing the effectiveness of a depression-integrated model in adult HIV care in Uganda (the HIV+D trial): a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Kinyanda, E; Kyohangirwe, L; Mpango, RS; SEKITOLEKO, I; Ssembajjwe, W; Tusiime, C; Ssebunnya, J; KATUMBA, K; Kiconco, BE; Laurence, Y; Tenya, P; Turyahabwa, J; Katana, P; ROSS, I; Vassall, A; GRECO, G; Mugisha, J; Taasi, G; Sentongo, H; Akena, D; Muhwezi, WW; WEISS, HA; NEUMAN, M; Knizek, BL; Levin, J; ... Patel, V.
2026
The lancet. HIV
Crises and complexity: how can we make health interventions succeed?
MKRTCHYAN, Z; Moyo, Y; BOZZANI, F; INGOLD, H; MEDLEY, G; Torres-Rueda, S; Terris-Prestholt, F; GUINNESS, L; Evaluation of Social and Population Health Interve,; Foss, AM; Ruiz, F;
2025
Health policy and planning
Future delivery pathways and costs for next generation HIV and pregnancy prevention products
BOZZANI, F; KATUMBA, K; GAFOS, M; Torres-Rueda, S; Gomez, G;
2024
HIV R4P
Young women’s use of existing contraceptive and HIV prevention products and preferences for future multi-purpose prevention technologies (MPTs) in Kampala and Nairobi: finding from a respondent driven sampling (RDS) survey
Lunani, L; GAFOS, M; Indravudh, P; KATUMBA, K; Anzala, O; MAYANJA, Y; Kuteesa, M; Machira, Y; Gomez, G; NEUMAN, M;
2024
HIV R4P
Understanding the contexts in which female sex workers sell sex in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study.
KATUMBA, KR; Haumba, M; MAYANJA, Y; Machira, YW; GAFOS, M; Quaife, M; SEELEY, J; GRECO, G;
2024
BMC Women's Health
Understanding the Structural Factors that Influence Female Sex Work in Kampala, Uganda
KATUMBA, K; Haumba, M; GAFOS, M; MAYANJA, Y; Gomez, G; RUZAGIRA, E; Quaife, M; SEELEY, J; GRECO, G;
2023
STI & HIV World Congress
Understanding the Structural Factors that Influence Female Sex Work in Kampala, Uganda
KATUMBA, K; Gomez, G; Indravudh, P; Machira, Y; GAFOS, M;
2023
iHEA
Process and costs for readiness to safely implement immediate kangaroo mother care: a mixed methods evaluation from the OMWaNA trial at five hospitals in Uganda.
MEDVEDEV, MM; Tumukunde, V; Kirabo-Nagemi, C; GRECO, G; Mambule, I; KATUMBA, K; Waiswa, P; TANN, CJ; ELBOURNE, D; ALLEN, E; Ekirapa-Kiracho, E; PITT, C; LAWN, JE;
2023
BMC health services research
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