Godwin Anywar (cohort 6 graduate, Makerere University) was selected as a 2023 Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) Fellow at the American Studies Association (ASA) on June 16, 2023. The fellowship comes with a two-year ASA and Emerging Scholars Network Membership. ASA plans to host 15 of the Carnegie fellows to present their work at […]
Charles Ssemugabo (cohort 9 fellow, Makerere University) won a grant to design a multifaceted, community-driven, behavioral change intervention to improve first response to childhood burns (Cool-Burn20) with colleagues from the George Institute for Global Health at Imperial College London. He will be the Ugandan lead for the 18-month (July 2023 – December 2024) Medical Research […]
Godwin Anywar (cohort 6 graduate, Makerere University) was invited to speak at the prestigious Volkswagen (VW) Summer School held at the Future Africa Campus, University of Pretoria, in South Africa. He presented on ‘Ethnopharmacological data collection from knowledge holders’. The summer school took place between May 15 – 19, 2023, under the theme ‘Ethnopharmacological relevance: […]
The CARTA Secretariat hosted the program’s Board of Management (BoM) at the APHRC campus in Nairobi for a two-day development program (March 23-24) for the outgoing and incoming members. During the workshop, Prof. Adamson Muula from Kamuzu University of Health Sciences was elected as the new Board chair. The development program follows the selection of […]
Jacob Mobolaji (Cohort Eight graduate, Obafemi Awolowo University) presented on ‘multidimensional deprivation among older persons in Nigeria: implication for poor health outcomes in later life’ at a workshop on Ageing and Health of Older Persons in Sub-Saharan Africa. The workshop was held between February 19 – 23, 2023 in Entebbe, Uganda, and sought to increase the […]
Henry Zakumumpa (Cohort Four Fellow, Makerere University) was appointed Technical Lead for a $ 2.2 million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project seeks to establish an Africa-wide HIV Control Working Group (HCWG) tasked with developing strategies for the sustainability of HIV epidemic control in Africa. The HCWG will have representation […]
The Program Officer, Higher Education and Research in Africa, International Program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) Ms. Claudia Frittelli was on Thursday 1st September, 2022 hosted by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe at a special Top Management Meeting as part of her institutional visit. Ms. Frittelli’s interaction with Makerere goes back […]
ADAKU ChristopherChemical Structure and Properties of Anthocyanins from Selected Plant Species from Uganda. Mr. ADAKU Christopher investigated a class of bioactive phytochemicals known as anthocyanins from selected indigenous plants, with the purpose of identifying ingredients for the development of nutraceuticals and for application as natural food colourants. This follows the increasing availability of natural health […]