Rebecca Namugabwe Nsubuga
Rebecca N Nsubuga holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Makerere University, a Master's degree in Biostatistics from Limburgs Universitair Centrum (Now Hasselt University), Belgium and a PhD from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is a former lecturer, for over ten years, in the Department of Mathematics, Makerere University.Currently a Senior Scientist (Statistician/Modeller) at the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS and a visiting professor at Hasselt University, Belgium. Her career with MRC/UVRI spans over seven years of mathematical modelling of HIV/AIDS epidemic and statistical analysis of longitudinal cohort data as well as cross-sectional data. She is a member of the Uganda Mathematical Society and the International Biometric Society.
Dr. Nsubuga's research interest is in: statistical analysis and mathematical modelling of infectious disease data; in particular HIV/AIDS epidemic; genetics, genomics and Bioinformatics.
Publications
- Kamali A, Nsubuga RN, Ruzagira E, Bahemuka U, Asiki G, Price MA, Newton R, Kaleebu P, Fast P. Heterogeneity of HIV incidence: a comparative analysis between fishing communities and in a neighbouring rural general population, Uganda, and implications for HIV control. Sex Transm Infect. 2016 Mar 1. pii: sextrans-2015-052179. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2015-052179. [Epub ahead of print].
- Shafer LA, Nsubuga RN, Chapman R, O'Brien K, Mayanja BN, White RG. The dual impact of antiretroviral therapy and sexual behaviour changes on HIV epidemiologic trends in Uganda: a modelling study. Sex Transm Infect. 2014 Feb 24. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051219.
- Nsubuga RN, White RG, Mayanja BN, Shafer LA. Estimation of the HIV basic reproduction number in rural South West Uganda:1991-2008. Plos ONE 2014; PONE-D-13-06125R4 10.1371/journal.pone.0083778.