Herman Lule
MBChB, M.MED
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Research Group herman.h.lule@utu.fi Office: Division of Clinical Neurosciences Turku University Hospital and University of Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0647-9716 |
Research Methods, RCT Design; Global Health; Global Surgery, Tele-Health; Trauma Surgery; Injury Epidemiology; Data Registries, Surgical Oncology
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Research Group, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research Group
Herman Lule is a specialist Licensed General Surgeon in Uganda and Botswana, and a Doctoral Researcher in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital in Finland. He also holds postgraduate certification in Global Health and Infectious Diseases from the University of Edinburgh (UK).
Herman is an affiliate of the Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Research Group and Turku Brain Injury Center of the University of Turku (Finland), and an International Member of: Australian Injury Prevention Network (Australia), Australian College of Road Safety (Australia), Association of Academic Surgery (USA), Public Health Association of (Australia), and Association of Surgeons of (Uganda).
His research interests lies with in the global health domain of addressing health and surgical care inequities amongst the most vulnerable populations with a global focus.
He has served as Research Coordinator-Directorate of Research & Innovations of Kampala International University (Uganda) and as Surgery Lecturer at the Kampala International University Teaching Hospital (Uganda). He was the Surgery Chair and Site programme Coordinator at Kiryandongo Government Reference Hospital in Uganda and Visiting Lecturer of Electronic Health Records and m-Health/e-Health within the Public Health Programme at the Information Communication Technology (ICT) University in USA.
Herman has a strong background in trauma surgery and is passionate about strengthening trauma care and disease surveillance systems in low-middle income countries and is currently developing a rural trauma team registry for motorcycle injuries in Uganda for a doctoral thesis. He was a National Lead Coordinator for the global surgery UK-NIHR funded CovidSurg-week and CovidCancer global projects that evaluated the quality of surgical and cancer care worldwide in Covid-19 settings in collaboration with the University of Birmingham (UK).
He is an invited speaker at the forthcoming WHO Safety 2024 15th World Conference Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention in New Delhi, India. He attended a master class on rural trauma team development training of American College of Surgeons in Chicago (USA). He was a pannel discussant of Research with Impact Regarding Africa during the 2023 Africa Research at Finnish Universities in Finland; and a presenting author at the: 2022-17th Annual Academic Surgical Congress of Association of Academic Surgery and Society for University Sugeons, Olando, Florida, USA; 27th edition of the digital international student’s congress of (bio) medical sciences in Groningen-Netherlands; Australian Safety 2020-14th world conference on safety promotion and injury prevention. Herman is open to meaningful collaboration to address global health challenges.
Global Health and Global Surgery research addressing healthcare disparities amongst the most vulnerable populations.
2023-2024: Systematic reviews an metasynthesis-Pincer training and Research Institute (Uganda)
2020-2022: Research and Ethics Reviewer-Ethical Review Board, Kampala International University (Uganda)
2020-2021: Visiting Lecturer of Electronic Health Records and Tele-Epidemiology-Information Communication Technology (ICT) University (USA)
2020-To Date: Masters Thesis Reviewer and co-supervisor-Injury Epidemiology Unit, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg (Germany)
2017-2021: Traumatology and General Surgery Clinical Lecturer-Kampala International University (Uganda)
2017-2021: Master of Medicine in Surgery-Thesis Supervisor-Kampala International University (Uganda)
- Prospective multi-centre analysis of rural trauma team development training for medical trainees and traffic law enforcement professionals in Uganda: an interrupted time series study (2025)
- BMC Medical Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of chewing gum on postoperative ileus after laparotomy for gastroduodenal perforations: a randomized controlled trial (2025)
- BMC Gastroenterology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The implementation of reusable drapes and gowns in operating theatres: A mixed-methods analysis of data from 5230 peri-operative professionals in 134 countries (2025)
- Implementation science communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Thyroidectomy under local versus general anesthesia in health camp settings in Uganda: a randomized prospective equivalence single-blind controlled trial (2025)
- BMC Surgery
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 503 Trainee-led rural trauma teams impact clinical process and outcomes of neurological injuries: new insights from the motor cluster randomized trial (2024)
- Injury Prevention
(Abstract) - Access to and quality of elective care: a prospective cohort study using hernia surgery as a tracer condition in 83 countries (2024)
- Lancet Global Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts (2024)
- The Lancet : Digital Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Burnout among surgeons before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: an international survey (2024)
- BMC Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of Rural Trauma Team Development on the Outcomes of Motorcycle Accident-Related Injuries (Motor Registry Project) : Protocol for a Multicenter Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (2024)
- JMIR Research Protocols
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention to reduce anastomotic leak following right colectomy (EAGLE): pragmatic, batched stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial in 64 countries (2024)
- British Journal of Surgery
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Factors associated with peptic ulcer perforations in Uganda : a multi-hospital cross-sectional study (2024)
- BMC Gastroenterology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lower back pain amongst medical trainees in clinical rotations: implications for choosing future career regarding medical practice (2024)
- Frontiers in Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New Trauma Score versus Kampala Trauma Score II in predicting mortality following road traffic crash: a prospective multi-center cohort study (2024)
- BMC Emergency Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Rural trauma team development training amongst medical trainees and traffic law enforcement professionals in a low-income country: a protocol for a prospective multicenter interrupted time series (2024)
- International journal of surgery protocols
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of Chewing Gum on Duration of Postoperative Ileus Following Laparotomy for Gastroduodenal Perforations: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (2023)
- International journal of surgery protocols
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Euthyroidectomy under local versus general anesthesia in health camp settings in Uganda: a protocol for randomized prospective equivalence single-blind controlled trial (2023)
- Trials
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Local anesthesia versus saddle block for open hemorrhoidectomy: cost-analysis from a randomized, double blind controlled trial (2023)
- BMC Health Services Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pain assessment following open hemorrhoidectomy under local anesthesia versus saddle block: a multicenter randomized controlled trial (2023)
- BMC Surgery
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prevalence and factors associated with malaria, typhoid, and co-infection among febrile children aged six months to twelve years at kampala international university teaching hospital in western Uganda (2023)
- Heliyon
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries (2023)
- British Journal of Surgery
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )