CHILD-GRF Fellow and SMART Africa-Uganda In-Country Principal Investigator Apollo Kivumbi, MBchB, MPH, was nominated to be an Early Career Researcher (ECR) with the Ethics for Mental Health Digital Innovation for Young People in Africa (EMDIYA) Network. The EMDIYA ECR is a formative grant in which Dr. Kivumbi and his colleagues are working towards a larger-scale project with a focus on the ethics of using IT platforms in support of the mental health of young people. Dr. Kivumbi notes, “Currently my main duties are completing formative work with young people, familiarizing myself with current mental health platforms in Uganda (both in use and under development), taking more ethics and digital courses, and participating in the bigger grant writing process.” Dr. Kivumbi is also in the process of completing his MMed in Psychiatry at Makerere University School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences. As a CHILD-GRF fellow, Dr. Kivumbi’s work focuses on cognitive training for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder among HIV infected children in Uganda using computerized cognitive training, and his mentor is Dr. Fredrick Edward Makumbi. Congratulations to Dr. Kivumbi! We look forward to celebrating your accomplishments as an ECR and CHILD-GRF fellow!
