Documentation and dissemination of scientific evidence by the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program: experiences and lessons learnt, 2015–2020

Table 1 Field projects participated in, scientific publications, and presentations made at scientific conference, and awards received, Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, 2015–2019

Cohort	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Staff	Total
Field projects participated	33	62	59	81	78	39	–	355
Outbreak investigations	18	15	27	31	17	4	–	112
Emergency investigations	1	4	7	0	1	0	–	13
Surveillance data analysis	9	16	15	10	23	13	–	86
Applied epidemiologic studies	5	22	5	29	27	21	–	109
Cost analysis of outbreaks	0	2	1	0	1	1	–	5
Quality improvement	0	3	4	11	12	0	–	30
Scientific publications	37	37	59	63	57	32	15	300
Peer-reviewed, published or accepted	18	8	14	4	0	2	7	53
Peer-reviewed, submitted, not published yet	0	3	18	26	25	14	8	94
MoH quarterly Epi Bulletin articles	19	26	27	33	32	16	–	153
Presentations made at scientific conferences	55	60	66	47	38	21		287
International conferences^a	21	26	32	14	8	7	–	108
National conferences^b	34	34	34	32	30	14	–	178
Awards received	0	2	2	1	1	1	–	7

^aEAHSC: East African Health and Scientific Conference; AFENET: African Field Epidemiology Network Conference 2016 and 2018; TEPHINET: Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health 2017 and 2019; ICEID: International Conference Emerging Infectious Diseases; EIS: Epidemiology Intelligence Service International Night; IMED: International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance 2016; International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses 2017, Global Health Security Agenda Ministerial Meeting, Kampala, 2017, Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Conference, Dakar, Senegal 2018, International Workshop on HIV & Women, Seattle, USA 2019, 5th World Congress on Public Health, Epidemiology & Nutrition 2018, 3rd International Federation of Environmental Health Academic Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 2019, 3rd One Health Central and Eastern Africa Conference, 2019, 19th International Congress on Infectious Diseases, International Conference on Cancer in Africa, Kigali, 2017, International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa, Abidjan, 2017, East African COVID 19 Conference 2020
^bNFEC: National Field Epidemiology Conference 2015–2019; JASH: Joint Annual Scientific Health Conference 2015–2019; USHS: Uganda, Uganda Society for Social Scientists Conference, 2015–2019, and Non-communicable Diseases Symposium, Kampala, Uganda, 2018

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