Makerere School of Public Health IDI NOURISH Research PhDs

Two research studentship positions (PhD’s) associated with the Irish Aid-funded NOURISH project available in Trinity College Dublin and linked with the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University and with the School of Public Health at Makerere University

NOURISH (Nutrition and treatment outcomes: development of a Ugandan-Irish HIV/Nutrition Research Cluster) is a research project funded by Irish Aid as part of its programme of Strategic Cooperation with Higher Education and Research Institutes in Ireland and partner countries in Africa. The NOURISH project mainly involves Trinity College University of Dublin in Ireland and Gulu and Makerere universities and the Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) and Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) in Uganda.

The research component of NOURISH is divided into three Work Packages (WPs). Of these, WP1 focuses on the role of nutrition as a determinant of treatment outcome for HIV infected adults and children in Uganda, by examining clinical, pharmacological and immunological responses to food supplementation in patients with and without malnutrition