African Population and Health Research Center - African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF)

African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF)

(Also see Third Call of the ADDRF awards)

The African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (ADDRF) Program was initiated in 2008 in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Ford Foundation. The program seeks to address some of the challenges faced by graduate students in African universities. The Fellowships are awarded to advanced doctoral students who are citizens or permanent residents of a sub-Saharan African country and are within two years of completing their doctoral thesis at an African university. The fellowships target students whose research shows great promise of making significant contributions to governance, equity, health, sexuality studies, or population-related issues in the region and are open to applicants from both Anglophone and Francophone countries. In particular, the fellowship program aims to bridge the knowledge gap in health systems research in sub-Saharan Africa. The program’s general objectives are to facilitate more rigorous engagement of doctoral students in research, to strengthen the Fellows’ research skills thereby enhancing the quality of their dissertations, and to shorten the period it takes to complete doctoral dissertation in African universities. Taken together, these are expected to lead to a higher retention of a new generation of highly-skilled and locally-trained African scholars in research and academic positions within the region.

As of the end of 2009, 45 doctoral students enrolled in 24 sub-Saharan African universities were awarded fellowships under the ADDRF program. These students come from 14 African countries. Where necessary, candidates’ home departments also received facilitation grants to enable them provide effective and timely supervision to the grant recipients and facilitate internal and external reviews of their dissertations.

Recipients of the 2008 ADDRF Fellowships and facilitators at the Scientific Writing Workshop held October 19-20, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya

As part of the award, all grant recipients participate in two training workshops organized by APHRC. The workshops are intended to introduce students to research methods and ethics, literature retrieval, reference management, scientific writing, proposal development, and communication of research. The workshops also serve as a networking opportunity for cohorts of Fellows which could lay the foundations for future collaborations across national boundaries. The content for these workshops is largely informed by areas of training need highlighted by the Fellows. A methodology and research skills training workshop was organized for the 2008 ADDRF recipients on November 10-14, 2008. The workshop was facilitated by internal APHRC staff, as well as experts working in the UK, US, and Kenya. The second workshop for the same cohort was a scientific writing workshop held on October 19-20, 2009. This workshop introduced the Fellows to scientific writing and provided them an opportunity to interact with editors of international journals in the broad areas of health. Since the workshop occurred just before the 7th International Conference on Urban Health, which was held in Nairobi, all participants also had the opportunity to attend the conference and almost all had oral or poster presentations. The 2009 ADDRF recipients attended their first workshop on research methodology August 31-September 4, 2009.

(Also see Third Call of the ADDRF awards)

A list of the 2008 and 2009 Fellows is provided below:

Name	University	Gender	Citizenship	Title of project
Jeannine Uwimana	University of the Western Cape, South Africa	Female	Rwanda	Evaluation and costing of a community-based intervention in the delivery of joint TB and HIV/PMTCT services in Sisonke district, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Gladys Kigozi	University of the Free State, South Africa	Female	South Africa	Facilitating factors and barriers to the uptake of HIV VCT among TB patients in the Free State (South Africa)
Louisa Njeri Ndunyu	University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa	Female	Kenya	Unsafe termination of pregnancy: An analysis of choices and opportunities in Kenya
Titilayo. O Olaposi	Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria	Female	Nigeria	Technology assessment of packaged water industry in Osun State
James Akazili	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Male	Ghana	Equity in health care financing; progressivity of alternative health care financing in Ghana
Paul Kiondo	Makerere University, Uganda	Male	Uganda	Serum levels of vitamins C & E risks factors and pregnancy outcomes in pre-eclampsia in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Sipho Kabane	University of Pretoria, South Africa	Male	South Africa	The effectiveness of the implementation of a hospital clinical adverse event prevention programme
Judith K Stephens	University of Ghana, Legon	Female	Ghana	A study of malaria in pregnancy at Kpone-on Sea, Ghana
Adebimpe Olayinka Obembe	Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria	Female	Nigeria	Kinetic and kinematic gait analyses of stroke survivors
Byera Shwekerela	University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Male	Tanzania	The effect of reforms on management of public hospitals in Tanzania
John-Eudes Kunda Lengwe	University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa	Male	Zambia	They have ears but they cannot': Listening and Talking as HIV prevention: a New Approach to HIV/AIDS campaigns at the three Universities in KwaZulu Natal
Grace Kahenya	University of Limpopo, South Africa	Female	Zambia	Challenges of Scaling up Laboratory services for diagnosis and monitoring tests of HIV/AIDS Patients on ART in Zambia
Evaline van Wijk	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Female	South Africa	The impact of sexual assault on intimate partners of female rape victims within the first six months following the assault
Amina Saban	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Female	South Africa	The association between substance use and psychopathology in young people
Philemon Adeniyi Olaleye	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Male	Nigeria	Health care demand behaviour: A case of people living with HIV and AIDS in the north central Nigeria
Emmanuel Osei Tutu	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana	Male	Ghana	Intermittent Preventive of Malaria in Pregnancy: Its effects on maternal morbidity and neonatal birthweight in Offinso District, Ashanti Ghana
Tobin Abiola Omowumi	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Female	Nigeria	An assessment of oral health services at the primary health care level in Kwara State: Impact of intervention
Olufunke A Fayehun	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Female	Nigeria	Environmental health hazards and childhood mortality among Nigerian ethnic groups
Georgina Yaa Oduro	University of Cape Coast, Ghana	Female	Ghana	Gender relations, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS education: A study of Ghanaian youth cultures
Lincoln Theo	University of the Western Cape, South Africa	Male	South Africa	Male identified same-sex sexual fetish in South Africa: Exploring human sexual relations with people, animals, and things
Givemore Muhenga	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Male	Zimbabwe	Characterization of resistance mechanisms in the major malaria vector anopheles arabiensis from southern Africa
David Omondi Okeyo	Maseno University	Male	Kenya	The influence of selected moderators and mediators of the relationship between psychological factors, physical activity and dietary practices of type 2 diabetics
Charles Michael Mtabho	Tumaini University, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College	Male	Tanzania	Improving tuberculosis management
Doris Wairimu Njomo	JKUAT & ITROMID, Kenya	Female	Kenya	Socio-economic and behavioral factors that influence compliance with treatment in the national programme for elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Kenya
Pauline Ejemen Osamor	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Female	Nigeria	Care seeking behavior and treatment of compliance among hypertensive adults in Idikan Community, Ibadan, Nigeria
Mbuyo Pami Elvine epouse Nguelefack	Universite de Yaounde I	Female	Cameroun	Proprietes antihypertensives et antioxydantes des extraits aqueux et au melange chlarure de methylene-methanool (1:1) des ecorces de Mammea africana chez le rat
Musa Sadock	University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Male	Tanzania	A history of sexually transmitted diseases in Mbozi District, Tanzania, 1905-2005
Yves Bertrand Djouda Feudjio	Universite de Yaounde I	Male	Cameroun	Dynamiques institutionnelles et accessibilite aux soins la tuberculose au cameroun: pluralite de logiques, contraintes et strategies d'acterurs. Une contribution a la sociologie medicale
Bertha Naa Ayele Garshong	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Female	Ghana	Benefit incidence analysis of health spending in Ghana and factors contributing to it
Sharon Kleintjes	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Female	South Africa	Mental health care user participation in mental health policy development and implementation in South Africa
Caroline Wangari Ngugi	JKUAT & ITROMID, Kenya	Female	Kenya	Isolation, characterisation and correlates of the spread of human papilloma virus infections amongst women in Thika District
Simon Peguedwinde Sawadogo	Universite de Ouagadougou	Male	Burkina Faso	Bases ecologiques et moleculaires du comportement de reproduction des populations naturelles d'An. Gambiae, vecteur majeur du paludisme au Burkina Faso
Yadouleton T N W Anges	Universite d'Abomey-Calavi	Male	Benin	Impact du developpement des zones maraicheres sur la transmission du paludisme en republique du Benin
Olumide Olasunkanmi Dada	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Male	Nigeria	Effects of constraint-induced movement therapy on upper limb functions and functional ability of stroke survivors with hemiparesis
David K Tumusiime	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Male	Rwanda	Prevalence of peripheral neuropathy and effects of physiotherapeutic exercises integrated into the management of peripheral neuropathy among individuals living with HIV/AIDS on ART in Rwanda
Ibrahim Ali Mohammed	Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia	Male	Ethiopia	Validation of tuberculosis diagnostic criteria and newly emerging tests for diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis in Ethiopia
Dominique Tano Konan	Universite de Cocody-Abidjan	Male	Ivory Coast	Etudes de l'activite antiplasmodiale de divers extraits de terminalia glaucescens (combretacees) et de erigeron floribundus (asteracees) : profil toxicologique en vue de la formulation de medicaments traditionnels ameliores (MTA)
Glen Ncube	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Male	Zimbabwe	Health policy, medical practice and society in colonial Ndanga and Bikita Districts, Zimbabwe, 1930-1960s
Peter Kamau Ngure	JKUAT & ITROMID, Kenya	Male	Kenya	Determination of antileishmanial activity of compounds of Warburgia ugandensis (Canellaceae)
Rashid Ahmed	University of South Africa	Male	South Africa	Sharp object homicide in South Africa: patterns, profiles and prevention
Fredrick George Kabbale	Makerere University, Uganda	Male	Uganda	Biting behaviour of malaria mosquitoes under prolonged use of insecticide-treated bed nets in Kamuli District, Uganda
Onjefu Okidu	University of Lagos	Male	Nigeria	Agenda setting theory: a comparative study of two communication models in HIV/AIDS coverage in selected Nigerian newspapers
Eve K Musvosvi	University of Pretoria, South Africa	Female	Zimbabwe	Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe
Malose Langa	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Male	South Africa	Becoming a man: Exploring the multiple voices of masculinity amongst adolescent boys in South Africa with regards to HIV and AIDS and other risk-taking behaviours
Ananstasia Maw	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Female	South Africa	The psychological impact of rape trauma: a longitudinal study of survivors in the western cape