Head of Office
Dr. Ismael Kawooya
Dr Ismael Kawooya holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and MSc Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics both from Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
Dr Kawooya is a Senior Research Scientist and Head-of-Office at The Center for Rapid Evidence Synthesis (ACRES). He has more than ten (10) years of working experience in coordinating and leading technical teams and the Center’s leadership.
He engages policy and decision-makers at different levels of government and sectors. He studied the application of multi-component strategies to institutions and the strengthened use of evidence at different levels of governance among others.
Dr Kawooya has trained over 100 researchers, Policy makers and decision makers in different countries such as teams in Zimbabwe, Malaysia and India in rapid reviews in Health systems as part of the Health Systems and Policy Research, coordinated for the SORT-IT (Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative) in Uganda. Specifically, he coordinated the training of nine National TB and Leprosy Programme Staff in operational research supported by their publication processes funded by WHO/TDR; Consultant Researcher, Witwatersrand University funded by the Hewlett and Flora Foundation, researched and published a case study and follow up on the Primary Case Systems Research (PRI-MASYS) on behalf of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research.
His research interest includes: – Tuberculosis and Sickle cell anaemia in low –income countries.
Research Interests
- Rapid Knowledge translation models, latent tuberculosis, Sickle cell anaemia