Olive Chifefe Kobusingye is a Ugandan consultant trauma surgeon, emergency surgeon, accident injury epidemiologist and academic, who serves as a Senior Research Fellow at both Makerere University School of Public Health and the Institute for Social and Health Sciences of the University of South Africa.
15 Facts About Olive Kobusingye
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Olive Kobusingye continued with her studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, graduating with a Master of Science degree in 1991.
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Olive Kobusingye followed that with a Master of Public Health degree, majoring in Epidemiology, obtained from the State University of New York at Albany in 1995.
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Olive Kobusingye was the founding executive director of the Injury Control Center, at Makerere Medical School in Kampala, Uganda.
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Olive Kobusingye has experience in the design and implementation of injury surveillance systems in low income settings.
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Olive Kobusingye was the founding Secretary General of the Injury Prevention Initiative for Africa.
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Olive Kobusingye established the first hospital trauma registries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Olive Kobusingye is Chair of the International Network for Clinical Epidemiology Africa Injury Research Cluster, consisting of researchers from four African countries.
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Olive Kobusingye previously served as a lecturer, in the Department of Surgery at Makerere University and as an emergency and trauma surgeon at Mulago National Referral Hospital, the largest referral hospital in Uganda.
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Olive Kobusingye is an expert on the design and implementation of injury surveillance systems in low income settings, and on designing interventions for the prevention of traffic injuries.
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Olive Kobusingye developed the Kampala Trauma Score in 2000, specifically designed for use in low-resource, low-income settings of LMICs, after establishing a hospital-based trauma registry that generated relevant and timely data on the causes, severity, morbidity, mortality, and outcomes of injuries in Mulago Hospital.
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Olive Kobusingye's KTS has since been validated and modified by other researchers, creating the M-KTS, which excludes respiratory rate from the calculation.
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Olive Kobusingye is a younger sister to opposition politician Dr Colonel Warren Kiiza Besigye Kifefe, a four-time presidential candidate and former president of the Forum for Democratic Change political party.
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Olive Kobusingye has served on the Core Advisory Group of the World Bank's Global Road Safety Facility.
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Olive Kobusingye is the Chairperson of the Road Traffic Injuries Research Network.