About Me

Name: Sheme Chemangey Masaba

Sex: male

Place of birth: Kapchorwa, Uganda

 Education Background:

Kapkwomurya Primary School   
Sipi Primary School 

Amanang Primary School 

Masaba Junior Secondary School  

Teso College, Aloet  

Nabumali High School  

Ntare School  

University of California,Riverside.  1963-1967: BSc, majoring  in zoology.

University of Wales, Bangor. 1971-1975: MSc, Animal Parasitology; PhD, Immunity to Animal Parasites.

 Employment: Positions held:

• 1975-76: Senior Research Officer, East African Institute of Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania.   
• 1977-79: Senior Parasitologist, Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Kisumu, Kenya
• 1979-80: Head of Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Nairobi, Kenya
• 1981-85: Deputy Director, Uganda Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo
• 1986-88: Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Animal Industry and Fisheries, Uganda Government
• Professor, Department of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda. 
• Member, Uganda Council for Science and Technology
• Founder and Director, Town View Secondary School, Kapchorwa
• I am active in social work, particularly promoting education in Sebei and the surrounding communities.  

 Scientific Publications:
My scientic work has mainly been on malaria and schistosomiasis.

1. Morbidity in urinary schistosomiasis in relation to the intensity of infection. J trop med hyg. 86:65
2. Man made dams acting as sources of bilharzias in Onganga, Kanaluo, South Nyanza, Kenya. E afr med j. 60:860
3. In vitro response of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine in Nyanza District, Kenya. Bull WHO. 76:593
4. Sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine in Busia District, Kenya. Trans roy soc trop med hyg. 76:314
5. Urinary Schistosomiasis in Homa Bay District, Kenya. Ken J sci tech. 1:71
6. Urinary schistosomiasis in Bunyala and Samia locations of Western Kenya. E afr med j. 55: 497
7. Population dynamics of Hyostrongylus rubidus infections in pigs after infections with 2500 larvae. J comp path. 88: 575
8. Anti-enzyme antibodies in rabbits and pigs against Hyostrongylus rubidus. Vet parasit. 4: 297
9. Studies on the immune response to the cuticle of Hyostrongylus rubidus. Bull anim hlth prod afr. 26: 421
10. The incidence of fascioliasis and hydatidosis in cattle slaughtered at the Mwanza abattoir, Tanzania. Bull anim hlth prod afr. 25: 421
11.  Sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum to antimalaria drugs in Nandi District, Kenya. WHO/malaria/83.998
12. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Experimental infections in cattle, in ‘Recent Developments in Medical Research in Eastern Africa.’ ED A R Njogu, et al.
13. The History of human Trypanosomiasis in Uganda. Meeting of the Scientific International Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control (ISCTRC).
14. Epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Kisumu, municipality, Kenya. Medicom  2: 47
15. Antimalaria activity of Vernonia amygdalina. Trans roy soc trop med hyg. 94: 695

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