Jane is a Public health research scientist with a Master’s in public health from Makerere University and a doctorate in medical sciences from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has over 17years’ experience in HIV care, treatment and prevention; research and health worker training. As a public health scientist, she is passionate about disease prevention, treatment adherence and implementation science. She has keen interest in social behavioral determinants of health and qualitative research methods and analysis. She is a current European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) Career Development Fellowship grantee assessing treatment outcomes, barriers and facilitators for linkage into care and treatment adherence among HIV patients initiated on Antiretroviral Therapy in five urban HIV clinics in Uganda. She is also the Principal Investigator for the USAID-funded East-African Health Evaluation and Applied Research Development (HEARD) project assessing health outcomes of poor urban children and adolescents in the three major cities of East Africa. Previously, she was part of the Bill & Melinda Gates HIV treatment outcomes study; the Development of Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa (DART), a non-inferiority trial in conducted in three centres in Uganda and one in Zimbabwe. She was part of the Europe-Africa Research Network for the Evaluation of Second-line Antiretroviral Therapy (EARNEST) Trial on which she designed and coordinated the sexual behaviour sub study of the EARNEST Trial and Adult Long-term research cohort at the IDI. She has designed and evaluated studies looking at mobile health-based interventions to support treatment adherence. She has over 25 peer reviewed publications and she is a reviewer for four peer-reviewed journals. She is an author of four inspirational books. She is also a career coach and life-skills mentor and trainer in primary and secondary schools, tertiary institutions and out-of-school youths.

Email: jwanyama@idi.co.ug