Joseph KB Matovu, PhD

Dr. Joseph Matovu is a Social and Behavioral Epidemiologist with 25 years’ experience in the design and implementation of social, behavioral and epidemiologic research. He is an Associate Professor at Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Community and Public Health and a Senior Research Associate within the Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health at Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Public Health from Makerere University; a Master of Health Science (MHS) in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work and Social Administration (SWSA) from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Dr Matovu is an accomplished author; peer-reviewer and editor for international scientific journals and he has peer-reviewed for the International AIDS Conference and the International Family Planning Conference since 2009. He is an author of over 100 peer-reviewed, scientific papers; an Associate Editor with AIDS and Behavior and BMC Public Health and an Academic Editor with PLoS ONE. His areas of interest include social and behavior research, HIV prevention research, impact/program evaluation, and implementation science research.