By Hannah Marion Namukasa
The State House comptroller Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye has lost his husband Prof. Anthony Mbonye who is a prof at the Makerere School of public health and at Uganda Christian University and a former director general in the ministry of health.
The announcement of Prof Mbonye death was made by the presidential press secretary Linda Nabusayi Wamboka on her office twitter handle on behalf of the state house comptroller and newly appointed head of public service and secretary to cabinet Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye.
”The SH Comptroller Ms. Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye with deep sorrow announces the death of her dear husband Prof. Anthony Kabanza Mbonye this morning. He was prof. at the school of public health, college of sciences, Muk and UCU and former director General Health services.” Announced Nabusayi
WHO IS PROF. MBONYE
He has been having a broad background in medicine and public health with expertise in malaria, maternal health, infectious diseases control; policy development and programming. Formerly he was Acting Director General Health Services and a Director of Health Services supervising all community and clinical programs in the Ministry of Health. Over time, he provided technical leadership and concluded a package of strategic interventions to improve health service delivery in Uganda. As Director of Health Services he was a member of the Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) providing oversight for the implementation of Global Fund Grants in Uganda. RESEARCH PROJECTS 1. 2017-2019 Understanding health system linkages: Formative research to develop strategies to support quality improvement in treatment in the private sector. Health Systems Research Initiative DfID/MRC/ESRC/Wellcome Trust (Co-PI; project ongoing)
2. 2015-2017 Integrated community case management (iCCM) in drug shops in peri-urban Uganda: Health Systems Research Initiative DfID/MRC/ESRC/Wellcome Trust (Co-PI)
3. October 2013 Cost-effectiveness of strengthening referral of sick children from the private health sector in Uganda. NIH/National Academy of Sciences. (PI)
4. 2010-2012. Project to genotype P. falciparum resistant strains to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine among pregnant women in Uganda. Malaria Capacity Development Consortium (MCDC) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (PI).
5. October 2008. Grant to study new ways of improving access to PMTC in Uganda.He was one of the 104 world scientists selected to receive the award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Grand Challenges. (PI).
6. 2008-2013. Strategies to improve malaria diagnosis and use of ACTs in the home management of malaria in Uganda: randomised controlled trial among registered drug shops. ACT Consortium, funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Co-PI)
7. 2002-2005. Improving access to IPTp in Uganda. Gates Malaria Partnership funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (PI).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1. Hansen KS, Clarke SE, Lal S, Magnussen P, Mbonye AK. Cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing malaria diagnostic testing in drug shops: A cluster-randomised trial in Uganda. PLoS One. 2017 Dec 15;12(12):e0189758. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189758. eCollection 2017. 2. Bruxvoort KJ, Leurent B, Chandler CIR, et al. The Impact of Introducing Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests on Fever Case Management: A Synthesis of Ten Studies from the ACT Consortium. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Oct;97(4):1170-1179. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0955. Epub 2017 Aug 18. 3. Mbonye AK, Buregyeya E, Rutebemberwa E, Clarke SE, Lal S, Hansen KS, Magnussen P, LaRussa P. Prescription for antibiotics at drug shops and strategies to improve quality of care and patient safety: a cross-sectional survey in the private sector in Uganda. BMJ Open, 2016, 6: e010632. 4. Mbonye AK, Buregyeya E, Rutebemberwa E, Clarke SE, Lal S, Hansen KS, Magnussen P & LaRussa P. Treatment and prevention of malaria in pregnancy in the private health sector in Uganda: implications for patient safety. Malaria J, 2016, 15(1):212 5. Mbonye AK, Magnussen P, Lal S, Hansen KS, Cundill B, Chandler C & Clarke SE. A cluster randomised trial introducing rapid diagnostic tests into registered drug shops in Uganda: Impact on appropriate treatment of malaria. PLoS One 2015; 10 (7): e0129545 6. Mbonye AK, Magnussen P. Translating health research evidence into policy and practice in Uganda. Malar J. 2013 12:274. 7. Mbonye AK, Yanow S, Birungi J, Magnussen P. A new strategy and its effect on adherence to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Uganda. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2013. 13(1):178. 8. Mbonye AK, Birungi J, Yanow S, Magnussen P. Prescription patterns and drug use among pregnant women with febrile Illnesses in Uganda: a survey in out-patient clinics. BMC Infect Dis. 2013; 13(1):237 9. Mbonye AK, Bygbjerg IC, Magnussen P. Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: a new delivery system and its effect on maternal health and pregnancy outcomes in Uganda. Bull World Health Organ. 2008 Feb; 86(2):93-100. 10. Mbonye AK, Bygbjerg I, Magnussen P. Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: a community-based delivery system and its effect on parasitaemia, anemia and low birth weight in Uganda. Int J Infect Dis. 2008 Jan; 12(1):22-9. 11.
