Dr Godfrey Siu

Dr Godfrey Siu is the Facilitate Lead on the Global Parenting Initiative. He is a behavioural scientist with training in public health and medical anthropology and sociology, and currently works as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Child Health and Development at Makerere University, Uganda.

His broad interests lie in the potential health contribution that an explicit focus on gender and masculinity can bring to men, women, and their families. His Doctoral research titled ‘Individuality, masculine respectability, and reputation: exploring the link between men's uptake of HIV treatment and their masculinity in rural eastern Uganda,’ examined male gender norms and their link with men’s health in eastern Uganda. He has published several articles on this topic, and his current work focuses on evaluating interventions on parenting and families to reduce sexual and gender-based violence and child abuse, and on understandings men’s risk relationships with adolescent girls and young women in the context of HIV, as well as how to improve male involvement.

He has strengths in qualitative research and in conducting training in research methods, in particular qualitative data analysis, and in mentoring colleagues.