Dr. Wilson Tumuhimbise is the Founder and Executive Director of the African Health Informatics Research Institute (AFHIRI),. He has been involved in implementing several Digital health research projects in Africa since 2015 and has co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed open-access publications.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computing (Health Informatics) a Master of Science in Health Information Technology and a bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara Uganda, where he also works as a lecturer and research fellow in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Informatics.
He has taught several courses at both Graduate level And Undergraduate level
- ✓ Principles of Health Informatics
- ✓ Health Information Systems, Healthcare Project Planning and Management
- ✓ Research Methods for Health Informatics
- ✓ Mobile Networks and Computing
- ✓ Mobile Computing and Data Communications
- ✓ Software Design Patterns
- ✓ Entrepreneurship
- ✓ Software Project Management
- ✓ Software Engineering
- ✓ E-Commerce and Digital Marketing
- ✓ Research Methods
He understands the ethos of research and dissemination. He is actively involved in scientific peer reviewing for several high-impact journals like the Lancet, BMJ Open, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), PLOS, and BMC. He is also an editorial Board member for BMC Digital Health Journal where he is responsible for handling manuscript submissions and reviews.
In 2024, Wilson led a team that developed an implementation science framework to guide the implementation and integration of mHealth interventions in low-resource settings called the TRIMI (Train, Research, Incentivize, Mandate, and Integrate) that has been published in the Implementation Science Journal. In this work, he guides that for the sustainable implementation and integration of mHealth interventions, intervention users must be trained, the usability environment restructured, users incentivized and mandated to use the intervention, and the intervention integrated within the routine workflow.
