Dr. Wilson Winstons Muhwezi

Makerere University, Uganda

Associate Professor

Email: wilson.muhwezi@mak.mak.ug

Qualifications

2007 Ph.D., Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden & Makerere University Kampala, Uganda

1998 M.Tech., Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway

Publications (Selected)

1. Mwanika A, Okullo I, Kaye DK, Muhwezi W, Atuyambe L, Nabirye RC, Groves S, Mbalinda SN, Burnham G, Chang, LW, Oria H, Sewankambo NK (2011). Perception and valuations of community-based education and service by alumni at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. BMC International Health and Human Rights 2011, 11(Suppl 1):S5
2. Kaye DK, Mwanika A, Burnham G, Chang, LW, Mbalinda SN, Okullo I, Nabirye RC, Muhwezi W. Oria H, Kijjambu S, Atuyambe L, Aryeija W (2011). The organization and implementation of community-based education programs for health worker training institutions in Uganda. BMC International Health and Human Rights 2011, 11(Suppl 1):S4
3. Larry William; Kaye, Dan; Muhwezi, Wilson W; Nabirye, Rose C; Mbalinda, Scovia; Okullo, Isaac; Groves, Sara; Kennedy, Caitlin E; Bollinger, Robert C; Sisson, Stephen; Burham, Gilbert; Mwanika, Andrew (2011). Perceptions and valuation of a community-based education and service (COBES) program in Uganda. Medical Teacher 33(1): e9-e15
4. Larry W Chang, Andrew Mwanika, Dan Kaye, Wilson W Muhwezi, Rose Nabirye Chalo, Scovia Mbalinda, Isaac Okullo, Sara Groves, Stephen Sisson, Gilbert Burnham, Robert H Bollinger (2011). Information and communication technology and community-based health sciences training in Uganda: perceptions and experiences of educators and students. Informatics for Health and Social Care. Posted online on February 18, 2011. (doi:10.3109/17538157.2010.542530)
5. Nakigudde, J., Airaksinen, E., Musisi, S., Muhwezi, W. W., Neema, S., Mirembe, F (2010). An exploration of Perceptions regarding postpartum psychotic illness in two districts in Central Uganda. The World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review (WCPRR) December 2010: 57-69
6. Kinyanda, E., Weiss, H. A., Mungherera, M., Onyango-Mangen, P., Ngabirano, E., Kajungu, R., Kagugube, J., K, Muhwezi, W. W, Muron, J., Patel, V. (2010). Psychiatric Disorders and Psychosocial Correlates of High HIV Risk Sexual Behavour in War-affected Eastern Uganda. Southern African Journal of Psychiatry 16(3) : 89–90
7. Muhwezi, W., W, Okello, E., S & Turiho, A (2010). A gender-based profiling of Quality of Life (QOL) of primary health care (PHC) Attendees in Central Uganda: A Cross Sectional Analysis. African Health Sciences. 10(4): 374 – 385
8. Muhwezi, W., W, Muhangi., D & Mugumya, F (2009). An exploration of intra-household differences in health seeking behaviour for orphans and non-orphans in an NGO-supported and non-supported sub- county of Luwero District, Uganda. African Health Sciences 9(2), 109-117
9. Abbo, C., Ekblad ,S., Waako, P., Okello, E., S., Muhwezi, W., W., & Musisi, S. (2008) Psychological distress and associated factors among the attendees of traditional healing practices in Jinja and Iganga districts, Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 2:16 doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-2-16. http://www.ijmhs.com/content/2/1/16: 1096-114.
10. Birabwa, H., Mungherera, M., Kinyanda, E., Muhwezi, W., W. (2008). Life Events and onset of Mania in a Ugandan Population. Bipolar Disorders 10, 31-32.
11. Muhwezi, W. W., Agren, H., Neema, S., Maganda, A. K., & Musisi, S (2008). Life Events associated With Major Depression in Ugandan Primary Health Care (PHC) Patients: Issues of Cultural Specificity. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 54(2), 145-164.
12. Muhwezi, W. W., Okello, E. S., Neema, S., & Musisi, S. (2008). Caregivers‟ Experiences with Major Depression Concealed By Physical Illness in Their Patients That Were Recruited From Central Ugandan Primary Health Care Centres. Qualitative Health Research, 18(8), 1096-1114
13. Muhwezi, W. W., Agren, H; Musisi, S & Neema, S, Maganda, A., K (2007). Life Events and Depression in the Context of the Changing African Family: The Case of Uganda. The World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review (WCPRR) Jan 2007: 10-26
14. Muhwezi, W. W., Agren, H., & Musisi, S. (2007). Detection of major depression in Ugandan primary health care settings using simple questions from a subjective well-being (SWB) subscale. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 42(1), 61-69.
15. Muhwezi, W., W & Sam, D. L (2004). Adaptation of Urban Refugees in Uganda: a study of their socio- cultural and psychological well-being in Kampala city In Journal of Psychology in Africa 14(1): 37-46
16. Muhangi, D., Wilson Muhwezi, W. W. & Mugumya., F. (October 2004) NGOS bridging the gap: AFXB-support to the education of orphans in Luwero district, Uganda. Comparative studies of orphans and non-orphans in Uganda. http://196.43.133.114/bitstream/handle/10570/252/munaaba-chs-res.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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