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Digital Mobile Technologies to study Tuberculosis: A Multi-disciplinary Program
The following grant was awarded by, is supported by, is administered by or is in partnership with the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Funding Fogarty Program
Global Infectious Diseases (GID)
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Digital Mobile Technologies to study Tuberculosis: A Multi-disciplinary Program
Principal Institution
University of Georgia
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Sekandi, Juliet Nabbuye
Project Contact Information
Email:
jsekandi@uga.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2023-2027
Country
Uganda; Regional - Sub-Saharan Africa
Collaborators
Makerere University
NIH Partners
NIAID
Project Description
The burden of tuberculosis is disproportionately borne by low- and middle-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa, such as Uganda. The program is built upon the premise that digital mobile technologies, that were not developed with health purposes in mind, may be leveraged in imaginative and novel ways to provide useful information that could guide the prevention and control of tuberculosis transmission, infection, and disease. The training program will build research capacity among a community of scientists to enable them to apply new technologies and analytic methods to study an old disease like tuberculosis.
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