Dr. Simon Kasasa

Name: Dr. Simon Kasasa

Organisation: Iganga-Mayuge HDSS, Uganda

Dr. Kasasa is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Makerere University School of Public Health. He holds a PhD from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, a Master’s of Science from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) , USA and a Bachelors  in Statistics from Makerere University. His PhD focused on Bayesian modeling and mapping mortality  of malaria transmission intensity using HDSS data. He is involved in teaching and research activities at the School of Public Health. Research areas include: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Pneumonia, TB and health systems. He is an Epidemiologist on the on-going national TB prevalence survey and  mapping HIV high risk places in Uganda and Supporting Policy Engagement for Evidence-Based Decisions (SPEED) . Dr. Kasasa is a Field Coordinator for the Masters of Public Health (Distance Education)  program. He is a member of the Higher Degrees, Research and Ethics committee and a board member of the Makerere University Lung Institute