Mr Kenneth Roger Katumba
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Public Health & Policy
United Kingdom
Currently working on my PhD research, using behavioural economics and the economics of sex work to investigate the role that biases to human behaviour play in the relationships between HIV prevention and vulnerabilities (individual, interpersonal, and structural) experienced by female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya. I am a health economist at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, where I have carried out a range of health economics activities including cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions, wellbeing research, quality of life valuation studies, capacity building for health economics research, and strengthening policy uptake of research. I have a Master of Public Health degree from the EHESP French School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Economics degree from Makerere University, Kampala. I have experience from France, West and East Africa.
Affiliations
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Teaching
I have tutored and supervised masters students at the LSHTM, and delivered short health economics courses in Uganda.
Research
Behavioural economics
Behaviour change
Economics of sex work
Mixed methods
Health economics
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted disease
Uganda
Behaviour change
Economics of sex work
Mixed methods
Health economics
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted disease
Uganda
Selected Publications
The economic burden incurred by families caring for a young child with developmental disability in Uganda.
2023
PLoS global public health
Data supporting "The economic burden incurred by families caring for a young child with developmental disability in Uganda"
2023
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Perspectives and Preferences for multi-purpose prevention technologies (MPTs) to address sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Kenya and Uganda
2022
AIDS 2022
Female sex workers’ preferences for Multi-Purpose Technologies to prevent HIV, other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies in Kampala, Uganda
2022
AIDS 2022