– Christine Nabirye –
PhD student
Global Health and Development London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Christine Nabirye is a social scientist based in Kampala, Uganda, with over 15 years of experience in qualitative research informed by medical anthropology. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Community Psychology and a Master of Arts in Sociology, both from Makerere University, Uganda.
Her research focuses on health care delivery in low-resource settings, with methodological expertise in ethnography, qualitative studies, and the evaluation of complex health interventions. She has conducted in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Central and Eastern Uganda, including Kampala, Kayunga, and Jinja districts.
Currently, she is a doctoral student at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her PhD research explores the limited effectiveness of hygiene interventions in Ugandan informal settlements, with a particular focus on past and present hand hygiene initiatives and their implications for health and everyday life. See her institutional profile page here.

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