GODFREY ZARI RUKUNDO
Personal Profile
Name: Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Department: Psychiatry
Qualifications:
1) PhD-Suicidology (MUST)
2) Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ELFT)
3) MMed Psychiatry (Mak)
4) MBChB (MUST)
Academic Rank: Senior Lecturer
Current Responsibilities
1) Head, Department of Psychiatry
2) Chair, Quality Assurance Committee, FoM
3) Contact Person, Strategic Planning, FoM
4) Member, University Quality Assurance Committee
5) Member, Kayanja Fellowship Committee
B. Research
Previous Research Project:
Title of research: Suicidality in HIV/AIDS in Semi-Urban Uganda: A cross-sectional analytical study
Start date: July 2009
Source of Funding: MUST/CRISE
End date: January 2014
Title of research: Exploring the Role of Graduate students in the Training and learning of Undergraduate students in Ugandan Medical schools
Start date: October 2013
End Date: November 2015
Source of funding: MEPI-MESAU-NIH
Title of research: Availability, Accessibility and Utilisation of Teenager friendly Antenatal Services in Mbarara Municipality in Southwestern Uganda
Start date: June 2013
End date: November 2015
Source of funding: MicroResearch-Canada
C. Current Research Projects
Title of research: Identification of Psycho-biological Mechanisms of the Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Refugees Settled in Uganda
Start date: September 2014
End date: Ongoing
Source of Funding: University of Konstanz, Germany
D. Academic peer reviewed publications Journal articles in the last Five years
1. Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Brian Mishara and Eugene Kinyanda (2016): Psychological correlates of suicidality in HIV/AIDS in semi-urban south-western Uganda. Tropical doctor. doi:10.1177/0049475515623110
- Scholastic Ashaba, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Florence Beinempaka, Moses Ntaro and John C. LeBlanc (2015): Maternal depression and malnutrition in children in southwest Uganda: a case control study. BMC Public Health. Doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2644-y
- Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Nakasujja N And Musisi S (2013). Psychological distress among adults admitted to medical and surgical wards of a regional referral hospital, Uganda: African Health Sciences 13(1): 82-86.
- Sam Ononge, Charles Karamagi, Clemensia Nakabiito, Julius Wandabwa, Florence Mirembe, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Larissa Jennings. Predictors of unknown HIV serostatus at the time of labor and delivery in Kampala, Uganda. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 124, (3), Pages 235-239, 2014
- David Mukunya1, Samuel Kizito1, Tonny Orach, Regina Ndagire, Emily Tumwakire, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Ezekiel Mupere and Sarah Kiguli. Knowledge of integrated management of childhood illnesses community and family practices (C-IMCI) and association with child undernutrition in Northern Uganda: a cross-sectional study BMC Public Health 2014, 14:976
- Aloysius G. Mubuuke, Catherine Mwesigwa, Samuel Maling, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Mike Kagawa, David L. Kitara, Sarah Kiguli (2014). Implementing the Angoff method of standard setting using 1 post-graduate students: practical and affordable in resource-limited settings. Pan African Medical Journal. 2014; 19:382 doi:10.11604/pamj.2014.19.382.5283
- Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Musisi S and Nakasujja N. Psychiatric morbidity among physically ill patients in a Ugandan Regional Referral Hospital: African Health Sciences 13(1): 87-93
- Patric Lundberg, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Schola Ashaba, Anna Thorson, Peter Allebeck, Per-Olof Ostergren and Elizabeth Cantor-Graae (2011). Poor mental health and sexual risk behaviours in Uganda: A cross-sectional population-based study. BMC Public Health, 11:125