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David Serwadda

David Serwadda

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Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
49508
World Ranking
8769
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

David Serwadda is affiliated with Makerere University in Uganda and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a primary focus on Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. Their research spans multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, and Virology. The core topics of their work concentrate on HIV/AIDS research and interventions, drug use and sexual risk factors related to HIV, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sex work and associated issues, HIV research and treatment, the impact and responses related to HIV/AIDS, and also SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Serwadda are:

  • Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Quantifying HIV transmission flow between high-prevalence hotspots and surrounding communities: a population-based study in Rakai, Uganda (2020, The Lancet HIV)
  • Uptake and retention on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among key and priority populations in South-Central Uganda (2020, Journal of the International AIDS Society)
  • Migration, hotspots, and dispersal of HIV infection in Rakai, Uganda (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Feasibility and acceptability of a pilot, peer-led HIV self-testing intervention in a hyperendemic fishing community in rural Uganda (2020, PLoS ONE)

Frequent collaborators in Serwadda's research include Joseph Kagaayi, Steven J. Reynolds, Godfrey Kigozi, Larry W. Chang, and Maria J. Wawer.

Publication venues where Serwadda has appeared most often are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Public Health
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society

Serwadda's scholarly output is marked by a significant number of articles contributing to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS, as well as broader public health concerns. The scientist holds distinctions including Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences awarded in 2020 and was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

    Julio Frenk;Lincoln Chen;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Jordan Cohen

  • Viral Load and Heterosexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Thomas C. Quinn;Maria J. Wawer;Nelson Sewankambo;David Serwadda

  • Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial

    Ronald H Gray;Godfrey Kigozi;David Serwadda;Frederick Makumbi

  • Rates of HIV-1 Transmission per Coital Act, by Stage of HIV-1 Infection, in Rakai, Uganda

    Maria J. Wawer;Ronald H. Gray;Nelson K. Sewankambo;David Serwadda

  • Probability of HIV-1 transmission per coital act in monogamous, heterosexual, HIV-1-discordant couples in Rakai, Uganda

    Ronald H Gray;Maria J Wawer;Ron Brookmeyer;Nelson K Sewankambo

  • Control of sexually transmitted diseases for AIDS prevention in Uganda: a randomised community trial

    Maria J Wawer;Nelson K Sewankambo;David Serwadda;Thomas C Quinn

  • HIV-1 INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH ABNORMAL VAGINAL FLORA MORPHOLOGY AND BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS

    Nelson Sewankambo;Ronald H Gray;Maria J Wawer;Lynn Paxton

  • Slim disease: a new disease in Uganda and its association with HTLV-III infection.

    D. Serwadda;N.K. Sewankambo;J.W. Carswell;A.C. Bayley

  • Male Circumcision for the Prevention of HSV-2 and HPV Infections and Syphilis

    Aaron A.R. Tobian;David Serwadda;David Serwadda;Thomas C. Quinn;Godfrey Kigozi

  • Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

    Julio Frenk;Lincoln Chen;Jordan Cohen;Nigel Crisp

  • Domestic violence in rural Uganda: evidence from a community-based study

    Michael A. Koenig;Tom Lutalo;Feng Zhao;Fred Nalugoda

  • Increased risk of incident HIV during pregnancy in Rakai, Uganda: a prospective study

    Ronald H Gray;Xianbin Li;Godfrey Kigozi;David Serwadda

  • Population-based study of fertility in women with HIV-1 infection in Uganda.

    Ronald H Gray;Maria J Wawer;David Serwadda;Nelson Sewankambo

  • The history and challenge of HIV prevention

    Michael H Merson;Jeffrey O'Malley;David Serwadda;Chantawipa Apisuk

  • Circumcision in HIV-infected men and its effect on HIV transmission to female partners in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised controlled trial

    Maria J Wawer;Frederick Makumbi;Godfrey Kigozi;David Serwadda

  • Effect of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Subtype on Disease Progression in Persons from Rakai, Uganda, with Incident HIV-1 Infection

    Noah Kiwanuka;Oliver Laeyendecker;Oliver Laeyendecker;Merlin Robb;Godfrey Kigozi

  • Biomedical interventions to prevent HIV infection: evidence, challenges, and way forward

    Nancy S Padian;Anne Buvé;Jennifer Balkus;David Serwadda

  • Age differences in sexual partners and risk of HIV-1 infection in rural Uganda.

    Robert J. Kelly;Ronald H. Gray;Nelson K. Sewankambo;David Serwadda

  • Male circumcision and HIV acquisition and transmission: Cohort studies in Rakai, Uganda

    Ronald H. Gray;Noah Kiwanuka;Thomas C. Quinn;Nelson K. Sewankambo

  • HIV incidence and sexually transmitted disease prevalence associated with condom use: a population study in Rakai, Uganda.

    Saifuddin Ahmed;Tom Lutalo;Maria Wawer;David Serwadda

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald H. Gray
Ronald H. Gray Johns Hopkins University
Maria J. Wawer
Maria J. Wawer Johns Hopkins University
Thomas C. Quinn
Thomas C. Quinn Johns Hopkins University
Steven J. Reynolds
Steven J. Reynolds Johns Hopkins University
Nelson K. Sewankambo
Nelson K. Sewankambo Rakai Health Sciences Program
Oliver Laeyendecker
Oliver Laeyendecker Johns Hopkins University
Aaron A.R. Tobian
Aaron A.R. Tobian Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Merlin L. Robb
Merlin L. Robb Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Patti E. Gravitt
Patti E. Gravitt National Institutes of Health
Rhoda K. Wanyenze
Rhoda K. Wanyenze Makerere University

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