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Muwonge, A., Bessell, P.R., Bronsvoort, M.B.D.C., Mugerwa, I., Mwaka, E., Ssebaggala, E., Wee, B.A., Kiayias, A., Mpyangu, C.M. and Joloba, M.L.,. Assessing the Impact of Haulage drivers in Uganda’s COVID-19 Delta Wave. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health. 2025;15: 54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44197-025-00387-w

Deborah Ekusai-Sebatta, Ritah Shanice Namugenyi, Eva Lakera, Erisa Mwaka, Rachel Kingc,, David S. Lawrencee, and Janet Seeley. Ethical issues surrounding the implementation of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. International Health 2025; 0: 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihaf016

Mwaka ES, Bazzeketa D, Mirembe J, Emoru RD, Twimukye A, Kivumbi A. Barriers to and enhancement of the utilization of digital mental health interventions in low-resource settings: Perceptions of young people in Uganda. Digital health. 2025 Feb;11: 20552076251321698.

Nabukenya S, Waitt C, Twimukye A, Mushabe B, Castelnuovo B, Zawedde-Muyanja S, Muhindo R, Kyaddondo D, Mwaka ES. Decision-making and role preferences for receiving individual pharmacogenomic research results among participants at a Ugandan HIV research institute. BMC Medical Ethics. 2025 Feb 8;26(1):23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-025-01181-w

Ali J, Esmonde K, Agudelo-Londoño S, Jannat Z, Shrestha P, Torres-Quintero A, Mwaka E. “Digital benefit sharing” for non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low–and middle-income countries: implications for digital health governance. Policy Studies. 2025 Jan 29:1-8. doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2452437

Nabirye AK, Munabi IG, Mubuuke AG, Kiguli S. Emotional and psychological experiences of nursing students caring for dying patients: an explorative study at a national referral hospital in Uganda. BMC Medical Education. 2025 Jan 20;25(1):96.

Ajalo E, Mukunya D, Nantale R, Kayemba F, Pangholi K, Babuya J, Langoya Akuu S, Namiiro AM, Nsubuga YB, Mpagi JL, Musaba MW, Munabi IG. Widespread use of ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence tools among medical students in Uganda: A cross-sectional study. PloS one. 2025 Jan 9;20(1):e0313776.



Schultz, B., Agamah, F. E., Ewuoso, C., Madden, E. B., Troyer, J., Skelton, M., & Mwaka, E. (2024). Webinar report: stakeholder perspectives on informed consent for the use of genomic data by commercial entities. Journal of Medical Ethics, 50(1), 57-61.

Nankya, H. (2024). Considerations for Community Engagement in Artificial Intelligence in Africa: A Review of Literature. The Journal of Hospital Ethics, 10(2), 85-85.

Nankya, H., Alibu, V. P., Wamala, E., Matovu, E., & Barugahare, J. (2024). Understanding of Key Considerations for Effective Community Engagement in Genetics and Genomics Research: A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Research Ethics Committee Members and National Research Regulators in a low Resource Setting. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 19(4-5), 197-207.

Nankya, H., Wamala, E., Alibu, V. P., & Barugahare, J. (2024). Community engagement in genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the perspectives of genetics and genomics researchers in Uganda. BMC Medical Ethics, 25(1), 1.

Nanyonga, M. M., Kutyabami, P., Kituuka, O., & Sewankambo, N. K. (2024). Exploration of Clinical Ethics Consultation in Uganda: A case study of Uganda Cancer Institute. Research Square.

Kampi, R., Okello, C., Ochieng, J., & Mwaka, E. S. (2024). Informed consent in cancer clinical care: perspectives of healthcare professionals on information disclosure at a tertiary institution in Uganda. Plos one, 19(4), e0301586.

Nalubega, S., Kutyabami, P., Twimukye, A., Kaawa-Mafigiri, D., & Sewankambo, N. K. (2024). Practices and attitudes of herbalists regarding informed consent in Uganda: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Ethics, 25(1), 106.

Owino, R. S., Sewankambo, N. K., Kituuka, O., & Kutyabami, P. (2024). Experiences and ethical issues during shared decision-making in healthcare at rural health facilities in Uganda: An exploratory qualitative study. Research Square, rs-3.

Nabukenya, S., Kyaddondo, D., Munabi, I. G., Waitt, C., Twimukye, A., & Mwaka, E. S. (2024). The role of community engagement in promoting research participants’ understanding of pharmacogenomic research results: Perspectives of stakeholders involved in HIV/AIDS research and treatment. Plos one, 19(4), e0299081.

Nabukenya, S., Kyaddondo, D., Twimukye, A., Munabi, I. G., Waitt, C., & Mwaka, E. S. (2024). ‘It is a complex process, but it’s very important to return these results to participants’. Stakeholders’ perspectives on the ethical considerations for returning individual pharmacogenomics research results to people living with HIV. Research Ethics, 20(2), 363-387.

Twimukye, A., Nabukenya, S., Kawuma, A. N., Bayigga, J., Nakijoba, R., Asiimwe, S. P., … & Waitt, C. (2024). ‘Some parts of the consent form are written using complex scientific language’: community perspectives on informed consent for research with pregnant and lactating mothers in Uganda. BMC medical ethics, 25(1), 149.

Ochieng, J., Kwagala, B., Barugahare, J., Möller, M., & Moodley, K. (2024). Awareness, experiences and perceptions regarding genetic testing and the return of genetic and genomics results in a hypothetical research context among patients in Uganda: a qualitative study. Journal of Medical Ethics.

Barugahare, J., Kwagala, B., & Ochieng, J. (2024). Stakeholder’s Perspectives on Rationing COVID-19 Vaccines Amidst Scarcity: a Qualitative Study. Archives of Microbiology and Immunology, 8, 23-34.



Nabukenya, S., Waitt, C., Senyonga, R., Castelnuovo, B., Munabi, I. G., Kyaddondo, D., & Mwaka, E. S. (2023). Research participants’ preferences for individual results of pharmacogenomics research: A Case of a Ugandan HIV Research Institute. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 18(4), 218-232.

Mijumbi, A. O., Mugenyi, L., Nanfuka, M., Agaba, C., & Ochieng, J. (2023). Regulation of community advisory boards during conduct of clinical trials in Uganda: a qualitative study involving stakeholders. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1), 119.



Sylvia, N., Joseph, O., David, K. M., Ian, M., Janet, N., Nelson, N. F., … & Erisa Sabakaki, M. (2022). Experiences and practices of key research team members in obtaining informed consent for pharmacogenetic research among people living with HIV: a qualitative study. Research ethics, 18(3), 193-209.

Amayoa, F. A., Nakwagala, F. N., Barugahare, J., Munabi, I. G., & Mwaka, E. S. (2022). Understanding of critical elements of informed consent in genomic research: A case of a paediatric HIV-TB research project in Uganda. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 17(4), 483-493.

Mwaka, E. S., Bagenda, G., Sebatta, D. E., Nabukenya, S., & Munabi, I. (2022). Benefit sharing in genomic and biobanking research in Uganda: Perceptions of researchers and research ethics committee members. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, 1037401.

Ochieng, J., Kwagala, B., Barugahare, J., Möller, M., & Moodley, K. (2022). Feedback of individual genetic and genomics research results: A qualitative study involving grassroots communities in Uganda. PLoS One, 17(11), e0267375.

Ochieng, J., Kwagala, B., Barugahare, J., Mwaka, E., Ekusai-Sebatta, D., Ali, J., & Sewankambo, N. K. (2022). Perspectives and experiences of researchers regarding feedback of incidental genomic research findings: A qualitative study. PloS one, 17(8), e0273657.



Mwaka, Erisa Sabakaki, Deborah Ekusai Sebatta, Joseph Ochieng, Ian Guyton Munabi, Godfrey Bagenda, Deborah Ainembabazi, and David Kaawa-Mafigiri. “Researchers’ perspectives on return of individual genetics results to research participants: a qualitative study.” Global Bioethics 32, no. 1 (2021): 15-33.

Ochieng, Joseph, Betty Kwagala, John Barugahare, Erisa Mwaka, Deborah Ekusai-Sebatta, Joseph Ali, and Nelson K. Sewankambo. “Perspectives and ethical considerations for return of genetics and genomics research results: a qualitative study of genomics researchers in Uganda.” (2021).

Ochieng, Joseph, Betty Kwagala, and Nelson Sewankambo. “Collection and use of human materials during TB clinical research; a review of practices.” (2021).

Ali, Joseph, Betty Cohn, Erisa Mwaka, Juli M. Bollinger, Betty Kwagala, John Barugahare, Nelson K. Sewankambo, and Joseph Ochieng. “A scoping review of genetics and genomics research ethics policies and guidelines for Africa.” BMC Medical Ethics 22, no. 1 (2021): 1-15.

Mbalinda, Scovia Nalugo, Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, Derrick Lusota Amooti, Eleanor Namusoke Magongo, Philippa Musoke, and Dan Kabonge Kaye. “Ethical challenges of the healthcare transition to adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinics for adolescents and young people with HIV in Uganda.” BMC medical ethics 22, no. 1 (2021): 1-14.

Kaye, Dan Kabonge. “Motivation to participate and experiences of the informed consent process for randomized clinical trials in emergency obstetric care in Uganda.” BMC Medical Ethics 22, no. 1 (2021): 1-12.

Nichol, Ariadne A., Erisa S. Mwaka, and Valerie A. Luyckx. “Ethics in Research: Relevance for Nephrology.” In Seminars in Nephrology, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 272-281. WB Saunders, 2021.

Kamuya, Dorcas, Mary A. Bitta, Adamu Addissie, Violet Naanyu, Andrea Palk, Erisa Mwaka, Eunice Kamaara et al. “The Africa Ethics Working Group (AEWG): a model of collaboration for psychiatric genomic research in Africa.” Wellcome Open Research 6, no. 190 (2021): 190.

Wolde, Telahun Teka, Rosemary Musesengwa, Andrea Palk, S. Mwaka Erisa, Violet Naanyu, Adamu Addissie, and Getnet Tadele. “Ethics review of multicenter neuro-psychiatric & neurodevelopmental genetics research protocols: a case study of the NeuroDev & NeuroGap-Psychosis studies.” Wellcome Open Research 6, no. 193 (2021): 193.




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