Affiliation

Professor in Population Studies, Makerere University, Uganda

 

Address

Department of Population Studies
Makerere University
PO Box 7062
Kampala
Uganda

 

Contact

Tel: 256 – 77 – 454482 / 256 – 71 – 454482
Fax: 256 – 41 – 530756
jntozi@isae.mak.ac.ug / jntozi@yahoo.com

 

Biosketch

James Ntozi is professor in Population Studies at the Makerere University in Uganda for the past 15 years. He is a Medical Demographer and Statistician by training and has accumulated experience in conducting evaluation, needs assessment and baseline studies at international and national levels in developing countries. His most recent monitoring and evaluation work included evaluating the PEPFAR project in Nigeria for the USA National Academy of Sciences and Congress (2005 – 2007).

 

Key research/capacity building interests

 

Research Interests

• HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Fertility, censuses and ageing issues
• Ageing and the Life course

Capacity Building Interests

• Training fieldworkers
• Preparing proposal for research projects
• Training in statistics
• Training in demography and reproductive health
• M&E issues

Key methodological skills

• Planning Socio-economic surveys
• Conducting baseline, midline and end line studies
• Analysis of data
• Report writing

Current/planned research

• Impact of HIV/AIDS on Older Persons in Uganda

Current engagement in capacity building

Teaching/mentoring statisticians and population scientists for Africa