Dr. Peter Milton Rukundo

Senior Lecturer

Department of Nutritional Science and Dietetics

Contact information:

Post Box 1, Kyambogo, Kampala, Uganda

Tel. +256782425076

Personal Profile:

Peter Milton Rukundo is a nutritionist-dietician and holder of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Human Nutrition (University of Oslo, Norway), Master in Nutrition, Health and Environment (Akershus University College, Norway)and a First-Class Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda. His research evolves around the human right to adequate food, food and nutrition security, nutritional status assessments, dietary intake studies, as well as food systems and governance. He is an Executive Committee member of the Nutrition Society of Uganda.

Publications:

Nahalomo, A., Iversen, P. O., Andreassen, B. A., Kaaya, A. N., Rukooko, A. B., Tushabe, G., … &Rukundo, P. M. (2022). Malnutrition and Associated Risk Factors among Children 6-59 Months Old in the Landslide-prone Bududa District, Eastern Uganda: A Cohort Study. Current developments in nutrition 6.2 (2022): nzac005.
Dia, O. E., Løvhaug, A., Rukundo, P.,& Torheim, L. (2021). Mapping of Outdoor Food and Beverage Advertising around Primary and Secondary Schools in Kampala City, Uganda. BMC public health 21 (1), 1-12.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-107009/v1
Rukundo, P. M., Rukooko, B., Andreassen, B. A., & Iversen, P. O. (2019). Housing, water and sanitation implications on food insecurity and diet diversity in landslide affected communities: A cross-sectional survey of two districts in Uganda. Clinical nutrition ESPEN, 33, 47-56.
Nahalomo, A., Iversen, P. O., Rukundo, P. M., Kaaya, A., Kikafunda, J., Eide, W. B., …Kabahenda, M. (2018). Realization of the right to adequate food and the nutritional status of land evictees: a case for mothers/caregivers and their children in rural Central Uganda. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 18(1), 21.
Epeju, W. F., &Rukundo, P. M. (2018). Food Security and Income through Sweet Potato Production in Teso, Uganda. Sustainable Agriculture Research, 7(1), 146.
Rukundo, P.M. (2016). Food and nutrition situation in a resource-limited country – a literature review of the last decade in Uganda. Int J Food Nutr Sci 3(4): 1- 5. doi: 10.15436/2377-0619.16.944
Rukundo, P. M., Andreassen, B. A., Kikafunda, J., Rukooko, B., Oshaug, A., & Iversen, P. O. (2016). Food variety consumption and household food insecurity coping strategies after the 2010 landslide disaster –The case of Uganda. Public Health Nutrition: 19(17), 3197–3209. doi:10.1017/S1368980016001397.
Rukundo, P. M., Andreassen, B. A., Kikafunda, J., Rukooko, B., Oshaug, A., & Iversen, P. O. (2016). Household food insecurity and diet diversity after the major 2010 landslide disaster in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey. British Journal of Nutrition, 115(4), 718-729. doi: 10.1017/s0007114515004961.
Rukundo PM, Iversen PO, Andreassen BA, et al (2015). Perceptions on the right to adequate food after a major landslide disaster: a cross-sectional survey of two districts in Uganda. BMC International Health and Human Rights; 15 (1):9.
Rukundo PM, Iversen PO, Oshaug A et al. (2014) Food as a human right during disasters in Uganda. Food Policy49, 1: 312-322.
Rukundo, P., Kikafunda, J., & Oshaug, A. (2011). Roles and capacity of duty bearers in the realization of the human right to adequate food in Uganda. African journal of food, agriculture, nutrition and development, 11(7), 5494-5509. http://www.ajfand.net/Volume11/No7/Rukundo10100.pdf.
Fungo, R., Rukundo, P.M., Kikafunda, J.K. (2010). Addressing Malnutrition through Professional and Inter-agency networking: the Uganda Action for Nutrition Society. African Journal on Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND). Volume 10, No. 8. http://www.ajfand.net/Volume10/No8/CommentaryFungo.pdf