MICRO-BIO

• My Name is Denis Nixon Opio, am a male Ugandan aged 32 years. Currently I am an Advanced Field Epidemiology Track Fellow with Uganda Public Health Fellowship Programme, Ministry of Health Uganda. This is a 2 year Post Masters Fellowship programme fu...More

  My Name is Denis Nixon Opio, am a male Ugandan aged 32 years. Currently I am an Advanced Field Epidemiology Track Fellow with Uganda Public Health Fellowship Programme, Ministry of Health Uganda. This is a 2 year Post Masters Fellowship programme funded by US CDC and hosted at MoH. As a Fellow, I have led the following projects; Principlal Investigator(PI) of an Evalaution of surveillance system in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, April 2017, PI of an Investigation of Mumps outbreak in Watoto Childrens home, Wakiso district, August 2017, a PI of an investigation of suspected Mercury Exposure among Artisanal Gold Miners, Amudat district, Jan 2018, a PI of an investigation of suspected Cholera outbreak in Kyaka II Refugee settlement, Kyegegwa district, March 2018. I have also participated as Co-Investigator in 5 other outbreak investigations in Uganda. Currently, I have designed and submitted for CDC for funding an HIV project titled "Comparision of Exposed Infant Diagnosis data using DHIS2 and Central Public Health Laboratory Databases. I have designed and is implementing a Quality improvement project titled" Improving newborn health outcomes using Birth Weight Age at Death Boxes for Interventions and Evaluation System (BABIES) Matrix. I have also designed TB Operations Research project Titled Predictors of treatment outcome of TB patients age >=8 years enrolled on DOT at PAG HCIV, and also conducted descriptive  analysis of MDR TB patients in Uganda. From the above projects, I have made 3  presentations at National Conferences, submitted 2 International Abstracts for AFNET, published 4 Epi bulletins and 1 Newspaper article. I have gratuated with MSc. in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistic at Makerere University, Jan 2016. Recently in May 2018, I have participated in conducting Immunisation Data Quality Assessment and developed a 5 year Immunization Data Quality Assessment and Improveemnt plan for Uganda. I have also participated in Various National Data Cleaning and DQAs. Before the Fellowship,  I had persued MSc. in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics with Makerere University, Jan 2018.  BSc. Hons. in Quantitative Economics, Gulu University, Jan 2008.  I had also worked as a District Biostatistician from 2008-2015 with Dokolo district Local Government where I was incharged of District Health Management Information System and Health data management.

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EXPERIENCE

• MoH

  • Field Epidemiology Track Fellow
  • Division of Health Information
  • February 2017 to Present

EDUCATION

• Ministry of Health

  • 2 Year FETP Fellowship Certificate
  • August 2014 to June 2015

  Advanced FETP is a 2 year Fellowship programme funded by US CDC and hosted at MoH and Makerere University School of Public health

• Gulu University

  • BSc. in Quantitative Economics
  • August 2004 to August 2008

  Subjects Covered; Mathematics, Statistics, Computer programming, Economics and Research

• Makerere University

  • MSc. in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • August 2004 to January 2017

  A 2 year Masters programme focusing on Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health management, Health Economics, Research project and Computer programming

Interests

• Making Presentations In Conferences And Sharing Knowledge

• Outbreak Investigation

• Surveillance Systems Imrovement

• Data Analysis

• Research Design

• Biostatistics

• Epidemiology

Links

• Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program
• Makerere University