Professor Josephine Nabukenya, Chair of Health Informatics in the Department of Information Systems, School of Computing and Information Sciences at Makerere University, Uganda, has paid a five-day visit to the Information School as a guest of Dr Laura Sbaffi and Dr Pamela Abbott, representing the Health Informatics and Information Systems Research Groups respectively. Josephine's visit follows on from a five-day research visit made by Drs Sbaffi and Abbott to Makerere University in April to establish research collaborations — initiated between Professor Nabukenya and Professor Peter Bath, Chair of Health Informatics and Head of the Information School.
While visiting the School, Josephine met researchers mainly in the Health Informatics and Information Systems research groups and presented a seminar on "Transforming Uganda's Healthcare and Ecosystem Using Health Informatics Research". She also spent time exploring current research interests and future potential collaborations between Makerere University's Health Informatics and Information Systems research groups, and is already collaborating with the HI and IS research groups on funded calls for research related to the use of Electronic Health Records in resource-constrained settings in Uganda — a portfolio of mutually enriching projects she is keen to expand.
Josephine also has interests in collaborating on PhD supervisions and online teaching for the Masters in Health Informatics programme, and has met with the programme coordinator and teaching staff from the Information School and the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR).
