Dr Stephen Ojiambo Wandera

Stephen Ojiambo Wandera (PhD) is a Gerontologist and a Demographer. He is a Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Population Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Fogarty International Centre of the NIH (2019-2021), and an Honorary Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (2018-2021). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of ICAP at Columbia University, Pretoria South Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2016-2017).

His research focuses on the inequalities in health, social determinants of health and access to healthcare among older persons in Uganda and sub-Saharan Africa. Recently (2021), he conducted a Scoping Review of “Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for older people with Dementia in Africa”. In 2018-2019, he led the first survey on ageism against older persons in Uganda, which led to diverse policy dialogues in Uganda. He investigated the “Determinants of HIV Testing among older persons in Uganda” (2017-2018). His PhD research (2012-2016) focused on “Disparities in health and access to healthcare among older persons in Uganda”. He aims to use experimental or intervention research designs in future to address the health needs of older persons in Africa.

He has published 27 peer-reviewed journal articles and 7 book chapters and technical reports on population ageing, intimate partner violence and sexual and reproductive health: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Q0xSODEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate#.

He has supervised students’ research projects focused on population ageing. He is a mixed-methods researcher, trainer of Nvivo, ATLAS.ti, STATA, and SPSS. He is an Associate Editor for BMC Public Health and a member of the TASO Research and Ethics Committee (2018-2021).