John Wycliff Byona has 14 years’ experience across the full research process: data collection, data entry and analysis, quality control, supervision, team leadership, training and project management. He holds a Bachelor of Urban Planning and Management from Makerere University and has completed a Master’s in Community Planning and Strategic Management at Ndejje University.

He has worked on more than 40 donor- and government-funded projects in health, agriculture, education, governance and the economy, in every region of Uganda, including hard-to-reach areas. On those projects he served as quality controller or regional supervisor (6 projects), supervisor or team leader (10) and research assistant (15). Clients and partners include the Clinton Health Access Initiative (as Field Coordinator across more than 20 districts), BRAC Uganda, Malaria Consortium, Baylor Uganda, Pathfinder International, the World Bank, UNICEF, USAID, Catholic Relief Services, CARE, AVSI, Makerere University School of Public Health, Brigham Young University and UCSB.

He collaborated on research published in the Pan African Medical Journal. He holds CITI Human Subjects Protection, NIH Protecting Human Research Participants and Good Clinical Practice certificates, and works in SurveyCTO, SPSS, Epi Info and EpiData. Since March 2025 he has been CEGER’s Project Manager on the UCSB waste management field experiment, and he was a trainer and field supervisor on the PASGR assignment.