Mr Ogara Collin is a seasoned Social Behavioural Scientist with over 10 years’ experience in developing, monitoring evaluating social behavioural projects. He currently leads social behavioural research at DNDi under the lollipop study and Substance Use Disorders-SUD and Toll-Free Line Officers-TFLO study in Makerere university these are Makerere RIF grants; integrating social ethnography and thick description research.

Mr Ogara is also leading the capacity building of staff in social behavioural research technologies (Social behavioural research analysis) at the College of Agriculture Makerere University under the GREAT Project *(Collaborative training with University of Connell and Makerere-Under a Melinda and Gates funding). From 2015-2016, he led a behavioural change focused clinical trial called; the baby Gel Pilot Clinical Trial: A community-Based hand hygiene Intervention 2016 and a Ward Gel health facility-based behaviour change Trial on hand hygiene in the Maternity Ward in Mbale Regional Referral Hospital. 2015-2016.

He was a Lead Consultant at Butabika National Referral Hospital: Social Behavioural Assessment of Reproductive Health Services of mentally sick (2013). He spearheaded social behavioural change evaluation at American Refugee Council (ARC-2008); Baseline evaluation in northern Uganda” Through my Eyes” it was for the development of a BCC campaign that addressed the three gender dimensions of women’s insubordination Traditional harmful practices, HIV and GBV, this project was a community-led change model, that involved chaptering and shouting BCC videos and showing the communities within Acholi sub-region in 2008, he also led the integration of gender behavioural change in TASO Uganda programming, through training staff and developing of TASO gender goal in the strategic plan ( 2008-2012).