Ag. Deputy Principal

Prof Kirumira K. Edward

B.A.(Mak), MA(Exeter), PhD(Copenhagen/Harvard)

Interest Areas
His interest is in population and reproductive health, with over 15 years of HIV&AIDS research and programming. Other areas include programme development, monitoring and impact evaluation.

Current Research

  1. Co-Investigator & Doctoral Students Supervisor on Project: AIDS Medicine in Resource-poor Settings: Learning from District Level Transformations in Health Culture and Care Arrangements in Uganda and South Africa. Funded b the Dutch Government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Dates of Project: Jan. 2005 – October 30, 2009
  2. Principal Investigator and PhD Students Supervisor on Project: Strategies for Poverty Eradication: Local Responses to Transformation for Sustainable Development in the Lake Victoria Region. Funded by Swedish Government through Sida. Dates of Project: July 1, 2005 – December 31, 2009
  3. Principal Coordinator of Research Program: Consolidating Peace and Development in the Lake Victoria Region and Its Environs: The National and Local Responses to Transformation from Turmoil to a More Sustainable Development Process. Funded by Swedish Government through Sida. Dates of Program: July 1, 2005 – December 31, 2009
  4. Co-Principal Investigator: Everyday-life Knowledge on Aquatic Life: A Comparative Study of Fishing Villages in Lake Albert in Uganda and Kumano in Mie Prefectorate, Japan. Funded by TOYOTA Foundation. Dates of the Project: Jan. 2009 – December 2010.

Recent Publications:

Olago, D., E. Kirumira et.al. 2007. Climatic, Socio-economic and Health Factors Affecting Human Vulnerability to Cholera in the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa. Ambio, Vol.36 No.1

Katahoire, Anne R. and Edward K. Kirumira. 2008. The Impact of HIV and AIDS on Higher Education Institutions in Uganda. Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO

Kirumira, E.K. 2008. The Politics of Coordination and Management of the Multi-Sectoral Response to HIV/AIDS in the Context of Global Funding: Experiences from Uganda. In: Follér, Maj-Lis and Thörn, Håkan (eds.) The Politics of AIDS: Globalisation, the State and Civil Society. London: Palgrave

Atuyambe, L., F. Mirembe, N.M. Tumwesigye, A. Johansson, E.K. Kirumira, and E. Faxelid. 2008. Adolescent and adult first time mothers’ health seeking practices during pregnancy and early motherhood in Wakiso district, central Uganda. Reproductive Health. December, Vol. 5 No. 13.

Larsson Petter, E.K. Kirumira, A.L. Steigen, A. Miyingo-Kezimbira (eds) 2009. Sharing Water: problems, conflicts and possible solutions – the case of Kampala. Bergen: UiB Press


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