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Freddy Kitutu

Lecturer/PhD Student - Pharmacy Department & School of Public Health, Makerere University, Uganda & IMCH, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University Sweden
Uganda

Bioethics - Medical ethics, Medicine, Epidemiology

01.02.2016-30.03.2016

ACCESS and EXCESS, EQUITY and INFORMATION: Implementing the ICCM intervention (AXEX) in Private Sector Drug Shops in Rural Uganda.
Mr. Freddy Eric Kitutu is a graduate pharmacist from Makerere University with advanced training in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics from the same University and clinical pharmacy from National University of Ireland. He has undertaken additional courses in public health ethics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Public Health implications of Quality of Medical Products at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Mr. Kitutu is a lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences and is currently a joint doctoral student at Uppsala University, Sweden and Makerere University; Uganda. His PhD inquiry is on access to and excess use of antimicrobial medicines, equity of paediatric fever care and the position of rural licensed drug shops in the district health system. During this stay, Freddy will write a paper on stakeholder beliefs, perceptions and experiences towards adoption of the integrated community case management of childhood illness in licensed rural drug shops and the wider health system effects. He will also apply a bioethical framework for health systems activity to scrutinize the AXEX intervention for ethical issues relevant to achievement of health and medicine policy objectives in another article.

Mr. Freddy Eric Kitutu is Ugandan with keen interest and expertise in child health research, evaluation of health systems interventions, teaching at University. His community service includes being a technical board member, Joint Medical Stores, a nonprofit medicines supply chain organisation, member of research & ethics committee and a task force of Ministry of Health in Uganda.

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