Esther Bayiga is a PhD candidate at the School of Public health, Makerere University (MakSPH). Her PhD research funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education focuses on pedestrian safety and the built environment in Kampala city, Uganda. She is also a research fellow in the department of Disease Control and Environmental health and in her research unit, she specializes in road safety research with about 7 years’ experience. Esther has a master’s degree in Health Services Research from MakSPH with a focus on road safety. She was a 2015-2016 NIH Fogarty fellow under the Johns Hopkins-Makerere University collaboration on Trauma, Injury and disability research.
She is also the past secretary of the PhD forum at the Makerere University School of Public Health. Her
research interests include; injury epidemiology and road safety research with focus the built environment, postcrash emergency care, costing of health interventions and evaluation of their effectiveness.
