Harriet Aber

Versatile researcher with over 8 years of experience executing public health research. Highly skilled at communicating with diverse teams both locally aninternationallyy, monitoring status and achieving key milestones. Enthusiastic problem solver and talented team player with superior planning and decision-making skills.

• Completed a one month consultancy with International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) to document the food safety status in agricultural value chains using cases from Eastern and Southern Africa.
• Research supervisor (Research and field supervision assistance including proposal development) to two medical students from Lund University- Sweden. Study topic: The Correlation Between Air Pollution and Child Health in Uganda - a study focusing on respiratory disease in children below the age of five – a pilot study (May 2017)
• Participated in Interviewing Key Informants and transcription of qualitative data from a study done to explore the health impact of the refugee influx in Adjumani district- Jan 2017
• Carried out literature review on Trends and impact of Forced migration on Health in Uganda in the last 20 years. October 2016 to Dec 2018
• WHO Immunization Switch verification process- Independent switch monitor for Kaliro district
• Research coordinator (December 2015) for Food security and dietary intake study carried out in (Kampala, Wakiso, Luwero, Buikwe and Mukono)
• Metropole University College Denmark- Research Assistant (February, 2015): I participated in a research that involved collecting quantitative data on food security in Wakiso and Mukono during this survey.
• Food Security Researcher (French Embassy) August-November, 2011 -Carried out a baseline survey on the food security situation in the district of Kayunga.

• Child alcohol use disorder in Eastern Uganda: Screening, diagnostics, risk factors and management of children drinking alcohol in Uganda (TREAT C-AUD): A mixed-methods research protocol, Skylstad, Vilde; Aber, Harriet; Bakken, Victoria; Dierkes, Jutta; Iversen, Silje; Kisakye, Esther; Kühl, Melf-Jakob; Nalugya, Joyce; Rayamajhi, Divya; Sebuwufu, Deogratious; Skar, Ane-Marthe; Skokauskas, Norbert; Valeckaite, Neda; Wamani, Henry; Engebretsen, Ingunn; Babirye, Juliet, BMJ Paediatrics Open, 5, e001214, 2021, 10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001214
• Adherence to complementary feeding guidelines among caregivers of children aged 6-23 months in Lamwo district, rural Uganda, Harriet Aber, Angela Nakanwagi Kisakye, Juliet Ndimwibo Babirye, The Pan African Medical Journal, 31, 17, 2018, 10.11604/pamj.2018.31.17.14955
• Hazard analysis and critical control point plan for hazards in Ugandan amaranth vegetable value chain, Harriet Aber et al., 10.18697/ajfand.85.17425
• Development of a food safety toolkit for dry common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Uganda using a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) approach, Harriet Aber et al., 10.18697/ajfand.83.17330

• Prof. Christopher Garimoi Orach, Head of Department CHBS, School of Public Health, Makerere University, 0772511444
• Dr. Mercy Lung’aho, Regional Co-coordinator for Nutrition in Africa, Center for Tropical Agriculture, +254 720114563
• Ms. Angela Kisakye, Student supervisor, Makerere University School of Public Health, +256 785373751

• Public Health in Complex emergencies course in 5th- 10th November 2018, Fairway Hotel
• Africa Risk Methods school- Ardhi University Dar es salaam 10th -21 September 2018
• Gender mainstreaming in Projects- held in Feb Nairobi, Kenya- March 2016
• Participated in a GIS mapping training - July 2015 held at Rice Center Namulonge- NaCRRI
• UNAP SUPA- Stakeholder holder mapping tool- Held at WFP- July 2014