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Dr Nambusi Kyegombe

MSc PhD FHEA

Associate Professor
in Social Science of Adolescent and Global Health and Head of the Social Aspects of Health Across the Life course Programme MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

I am an interdisciplinary social scientist with 19 years of experience working in global health and development.  I have a development studies background and a keen interest in the bi-directional relationship between health and poverty (and other social and structural drivers of morbidity) from a global health perspective. I hold an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the International Development Department of the University of Birmingham as well as an MSc in Demography and Health from LSHTM. My PHD research at LSHTM examined the socioeconomic impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on household livelihoods in Uganda.

Before joining LSHTM, I worked as a Research Officer at the Overseas Development Institute in London. I am affiliated with the Gender Violence and Health Centre which is part of the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group (SaME) in the Department of Global Health and Development (GHD). 

I sit on the Strategic Leadership Team of The Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive, & Child Health (MARCH) and co-lead the A=Adolescents theme.  I am also an Associate Editor for Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters and BMC Women and sit on the high risk observational study ethics board of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Affiliations

Faculty of Public Health and Policy
MRC - Uganda
Department of Global Health and Development

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)

Teaching

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I enjoy teaching on a number of face-to-face and distance learning courses in the Faculties of Public Health and Policy and Infectious and Tropical Diseases.  I am module organiser for Gender and Reproductive Rights and co-organiser of the Global Adolescent Health Short CourseI supervise three LSHTM PhD students and a number of MSc students enrolled on both London-based and Distance Learning MSc programmes.

Research

My research  focuses on the complex system in which health, particularly adolescent sexual and reproductive health, is produced and reproduced with a focus on low and middle-income country contexts. This includes formative research on the context in which health and morbidity are located, methodological research to improve the measurment of morbidity, and research on the conduct of high quality, ethical research, particularly among marginalised populations. My research has also focused on the qualitative evaluation of complex violence prevention interventions including a randomised controlled trial of the Good School Toolkit in Uganda, and  the qualitative evaluation of SASA!, a community mobilisation intervention designed to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk-related behaviours.  

My current research interest centre on reconceptualising adoelscent sexual and reproductive health morbidity using a systems science approach. I am also particularly motivated by action-oriented research to inform interventions and positive change.

Research Area
Complex interventions
Social and structural determinants of health
Adolescent health
Gender
Global Health
Mixed methods
Qualitative methods
Randomised controlled trials
Violence
Discipline
Development studies
Social Sciences
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Country
Uganda
South Africa
Region
Least developed countries: UN classification
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Evaluations of Interventions with Child Domestic Workers: A Rapid Systematic Review.
Kyegombe N; Pocock NS; Chan CW; Blagbrough J; Zimmerman C
2021
International journal of environmental research and public health
Developing Experimental Vignettes to Identify Gender Norms Associated With Transactional Sex for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Central Uganda.
Stoebenau K; Kyegombe N; Bingenheimer JB; Ddumba-Nyanzi I; Mulindwa J
2019
Journal of Adolescent Health
Improving the Measurement of Transactional Sex in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Review.
Wamoyi J; Ranganathan M; Kyegombe N; Stoebenau K
2019
JAIDS-Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Translating DREAMS into practice: Early lessons from implementation in six settings.
Chimbindi N; Birdthistle I; Shahmanesh M; Osindo J; Mushati P; Ondeng'e K; Zuma T; Chiyaka T; Kyegombe N; Hargreaves J
2018
PLOS ONE
Implementation of the Good School Toolkit in Uganda: a quantitative process evaluation of a successful violence prevention program.
Knight L; Allen E; Mirembe A; Nakuti J; Namy S; Child JC; Sturgess J; Kyegombe N; Walakira EJ; Elbourne D
2018
BMC public health
Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda.
Starmann E; Heise L; Kyegombe N; Devries K; Abramsky T; Michau L; Musuya T; Watts C; Collumbien M
2018
BMC public health
Reducing Physical Violence Toward Primary School Students With Disabilities.
Devries K; Kuper H; Knight L; Allen E; Kyegombe N; Banks LM; Kelly S; Naker D
2017
The Journal of adolescent health
Witnessing intimate partner violence and child maltreatment in Ugandan children: a cross-sectional survey.
Devries KM; Knight L; Child JC; Kyegombe N; Hossain M; Lees S; Watts C; Naker D
2017
BMJ open
Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?
Abramsky T; Devries KM; Michau L; Nakuti J; Musuya T; Kiss L; Kyegombe N; Watts C
2016
BMC public health
The impact of SASA!, a community mobilisation intervention, on women's experiences of intimate partner violence: secondary findings from a cluster randomised trial in Kampala, Uganda.
Abramsky T; Devries KM; Michau L; Nakuti J; Musuya T; Kyegombe N; Watts C
2016
Journal of epidemiology and community health
Exploring Couples' Processes of Change in the Context of SASA!, a Violence Against Women and HIV Prevention Intervention in Uganda.
Starmann E; Collumbien M; Kyegombe N; Devries K; Michau L; Musuya T; Watts C; Heise L
2016
Prevention science
The Good School Toolkit for reducing physical violence from school staff to primary school students: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Uganda.
Devries KM; Knight L; Child JC; Mirembe A; Nakuti J; Jones R; Sturgess J; Allen E; Kyegombe N; Parkes J
2015
The Lancet Global health
What is the potential for interventions designed to prevent violence against women to reduce children's exposure to violence? Findings from the SASA! study, Kampala, Uganda.
Kyegombe N; Abramsky T; Devries KM; Michau L; Nakuti J; Starmann E; Musuya T; Heise L; Watts C
2015
Child abuse & neglect
Violence against primary school children with disabilities in Uganda: a cross-sectional study.
Devries KM; Kyegombe N; Zuurmond M; Parkes J; Child JC; Walakira EJ; Naker D
2014
BMC public health
The impact of SASA!, a community mobilization intervention, on reported HIV-related risk behaviours and relationship dynamics in Kampala, Uganda.
Kyegombe N; Abramsky T; Devries KM; Starmann E; Michau L; Nakuti J; Musuya T; Heise L; Watts C
2014
Journal of the International AIDS Society
The effects of an HIV project on HIV and non-HIV services at local government clinics in urban Kampala.
Matsubayashi T; Manabe YC; Etonu A; Kyegombe N; Muganzi A; Coutinho A; Peters DH
2011
BMC international health and human rights
The impact on nurses and nurse managers of introducing PEPFAR clinical services in urban government clinics in Uganda.
Nankumbi J; Groves S; Leontsini E; Kyegombe N; Coutinho A; Manabe Y
2011
BMC international health and human rights
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