Sarah Namirembe
Biographic Data
| ID | 229378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Namirembe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Namirembe |
| SIGNATURE | NAMIREMBE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marcus Hughes is with the Department of Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC. Selena Suhail-Sindhu is with the Center for Social Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Sarah Namirembe is a student at Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Kampala, Uganda. Ayana Jordan is with the Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Health, New York. Morgan Medlock is the behavioral health commissioner for the State of Colorado. Hansel E. Tookes is with the... |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4968-2247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City
Higher Powers draws on four years of collaborative fieldwork carried out with Ugandans working to reconstruct their lives after attempting to leave behind problematic alcohol use. Given the relatively recent introduction of biomedical ideas of alcoholism and addiction in Uganda, most of these people have used other therapeutic resources, including herbal aversion therapies, engagements with balubaale spirits, and forms of deliverance and spiritua…
Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring
Rurality has served as a key concept in popular and scientific understandings of the US overdose crisis, with White, rural, and low-income areas thought to be most heavily affected. However, we observe that overdose trends have risen nearly uniformly across the urban-rural designations employed in most research, implying that their importance has likely been overstated or incorrectly conceptualized. Nevertheless, urbanicity/rurality does serve as…
Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
The Crucial Role of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Leadership in Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment
The Crucial Role of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Leadership in Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment
Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City
Higher Powers draws on four years of collaborative fieldwork carried out with Ugandans working to reconstruct their lives after attempting to leave behind problematic alcohol use. Given the relatively recent introduction of biomedical ideas of alcoholism and addiction in Uganda, most of these people have used other therapeutic resources, including herbal aversion therapies, engagements with balubaale spirits, and forms of deliverance and spiritua…
Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
The Crucial Role of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Leadership in Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment
Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring
Rurality has served as a key concept in popular and scientific understandings of the US overdose crisis, with White, rural, and low-income areas thought to be most heavily affected. However, we observe that overdose trends have risen nearly uniformly across the urban-rural designations employed in most research, implying that their importance has likely been overstated or incorrectly conceptualized. Nevertheless, urbanicity/rurality does serve as…
Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City
Higher Powers draws on four years of collaborative fieldwork carried out with Ugandans working to reconstruct their lives after attempting to leave behind problematic alcohol use. Given the relatively recent introduction of biomedical ideas of alcoholism and addiction in Uganda, most of these people have used other therapeutic resources, including herbal aversion therapies, engagements with balubaale spirits, and forms of deliverance and spiritua…
Medicine (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Addiction (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Harm (2 works) · Harm reduction (2 works)