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Ibrahim Kasujja

Biography: 

Ibrahim pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Uganda between 2015-2018. After graduation in Uganda, he was recruited as a Research Assistant in the School of Food Technology, Human Nutrition and Bioengineering (SFTNB) at Makerere University between 2019-2020. He was also the Nutritionist of Gombe hospital, and a Nutrition Advisor at the Hope of Grace Foundation in Uganda. Currently, he is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at McGill, and he is co-founder of Nurture Posterity International, a not-for-profit Organization that supports rural Ugandans to practice nutritionally sensitive agriculture and optimal feeding (i.e., breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and school feeding) for the improvement of household food security and childhood nutritional statuses (i.e., reduction of the incidences and prevalence of both acute and chronic malnutrition), respectively. 

Research Interests: 

  • Development and Validation of experience-based Food Insecurity (FI) scales; Evaluation of social protection initiatives (i.e., school feeding, supplementary feeding programs (SFP), Food-for-Education (FFE) programs, etc.); School hunger and Childhood malnutrition; and Clinical dietetics and Nutrition.   

Awards:   

  • 2021 Little Bet Challenge at Africa Leadership Academy  

  • McGill Dobson Cup Award Winner. 

  • MCF Transitions Fund (Grant Recipient). 

  • MasterCard Foundation Award Recipient (cohort of 2020) 

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