Herman Lule
MBChB, M.MED
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Research Group herman.h.lule@utu.fi : Division of Clinical Neurosciences Turku University Hospital and University of Turku |
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)
- Vaccination for Safe Surgery During The SARS-Cov-2 Pandemic: Modelling Study (2021)
- British Journal of Surgery
- Abdominal surgical site infection incidence, risk factors, and antibiotic susceptibility at a university teaching hospital in western Uganda: A cross-sectional study (2020)
- East and Central African Journal of Surgery
- Awareness of breast disease among female undergraduate students in Kampala, Uganda: A descriptive, cross-sectional study (2020)
- East and Central African Journal of Surgery
- Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection (2020)
- British Journal of Surgery
- Elective surgery cancellations due to theCOVID-19 pandemic: global predictive modelling to inform surgical recovery plans (2020)
- British Journal of Surgery
- Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study (2020)
- Lancet
- Outcomes from elective colorectal cancer surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (2020)
- Colorectal Disease
- Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (2020)
- British Journal of Surgery
- Thirty-day clinical outcome of traumatic brain injury patients with acute extradural and subdural hematoma: a cohort study at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda (2020)
- Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery
- Acute Necrotic-Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis in a 2 Year Old Girl at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital (Uganda): Case Report (2015)
- Scholars journal of applied medical sciences
- Blood Group Distribution in a Study Population and their Associated Rhesus Factor (Uganda) (2015)
- Scholars journal of applied medical sciences
- Epidemiology of Coccidian Parasites in HIV Patients of Northern Uganda (2015)
- British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research
- Knowledge, Perceptions and Acceptability to Strengthening Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health Education amongst Secondary Schools in Gulu District (2013)
- World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology