Information and National Guidance Minister, Frank Tumwebaze has been among 13299 graduands presented at Makerere University to receive their degrees and award of diplomas during the 63rd graduation ceremony.
Tumwebaze attained a Master’s Degree in Public Health at the institution.
Speaking to this website, Tumwebaze said the pursuit for knowledge should be a continuous process so as to improve the quality of ones understanding and shape his/her world view.
“Glad to have completed this Masters degree in Public health,” he said.
Adding: “I pursued this course to particularly help myself understand the whole spectrum of the social determinants of health and what factors explain the disease burden in our communities.”
The ICT Minister elucidates that, “heavy disease burden in our communities is not only explained by clinical factors but by a range of social-economic and political factors that policy makers need to be aware of and therefore design sound interventions/policies anchored on the basis of evidence and more so research evidence. When policy interventions are informed by research evidence they tend to be more effective. That is why my research dissertation was on.” “Exploring the Utilisation of research evidence in health policy formulation processes”