Herman Lule
MBChB, M.MED
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Research Group herman.h.lule@utu.fi Työhuone: Division of Clinical Neurosciences Turku University Hospital and University of Turku ORCID-tunniste: 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)
- Sociodemographic distribution and correlates of nonfatal unintentional non-traffic-related injuries in Kenya: Results from the 2014 demographic and health survey (2023)
- Health science reports
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Testicular salvageability and its predictors among patients with testicular torsion in a resource limited setting: a multicentre longitudinal study (2023)
- BMC Surgery
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Effects of hospital facilities on patient outcomes after cancer surgery: an international, prospective, observational study (2022)
- Lancet Global Health
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Efficacy of extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma using a portable handheld device for detecting hemothorax in a low resource setting; a multicenter longitudinal study (2022)
- BMC Medical Imaging
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries (2022)
- Lancet
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Open hemorrhoidectomy under local anesthesia versus saddle block in western Uganda: a study protocol for a prospective equivalence randomized, double-blind controlled trial (2022)
- Trials
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study (2022)
- Anaesthesia
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Self-reported involvement in road traffic crashes in Kenya: A cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample (2022)
- Health science reports
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - The impact of surgical delay on resectability of colorectal cancer: An international prospective cohort study (2022)
- Colorectal Disease
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Ugandan Men Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Nationally Representative Data (2022)
- Journal of Prevention
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (2021)
- British Journal of Surgery
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study (2021)
- Lancet Oncology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study (2021)
- Anaesthesia
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19-Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study (2021)
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Global variation in postoperative mortality and complications after cancer surgery: a multicentre, prospective cohort study in 82 countries (2021)
- Lancet
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Head and neck cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international, multicenter, observational cohort study (2021)
- Cancer
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Hyperglycemia in severe traumatic brain injury patients and its association with thirty-day mortality: a prospective observational cohort study in Uganda (2021)
- PeerJ
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard Among Ugandan Health Workers (2021)
- Frontiers in Public Health
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Penile ring entrapment and strangulation: A case report at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital in Western Uganda (2021)
- International journal of surgery case reports
(B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study (2021)
- Anaesthesia
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )