Biography

Dr. Lynn Atuyambe holds a Ph.D. in Public Health Sciences (International Health) from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an Associate Professor at the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) and has over 20 years of teaching and research experience in reproductive and adolescent health, air pollution, and health. He is the coordinator for the doctoral course Advanced Qualitative Research Methods for Health Sciences. He also runs the course Adolescent Health as well as Health Promotion, Health Education, and Behavior Change Communication for the Postgraduates at the MakSPH. With a background in social and behavioral sciences, most of his publications take a qualitative or mixed methods approach. He is very experienced in surveys in Uganda and the region. He has collaborated on research in many countries over the years.

Recently (September 2023), Dr. Atuyambe was appointed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) Uganda to serve on the National Adolescent and School Health Technical Working Group. He also serves on the MoH Teenage Pregnancy Think Tank since May 2024. He is a member of the WHO Global Air Pollution and Health – The Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG) assigned to the Expert Working Group on Health Outcomes / Exposure-Response Functions. He has participated in several NIH-funded projects focusing on air pollution and climate change (GEOHealth hub), medical education initiatives (MEPI), Social and Behavioral HIV Research Capacity Building in Uganda, and trauma injury and Across the Lifespan (TRIAD). Other projects have focused on reproductive health, such as the Innovations for Choice and Autonomy (ICAN) project, which is rooted in the idea that women’s autonomy and decision-making for key priorities in all sexual and reproductive health, the Sayana® Press Effectiveness Study in Uganda, which was sponsored by PATH with funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has over 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including those on adolescent reproductive health, coping theories among pregnant adolescents, HIV/AIDS, ART access and fairness, Stigma and discrimination, and HIV disclosure outcomes.