The Department of Veterinary Pharmacy, Clinical and Comparative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (CoVAB), Makerere University has been accepted as an Instrumental Access awardee. The college will receive scientific equipment worth 400,000 USD (Shs. 1.6 billion) for teaching, research, and diagnostic services. The award that follows an application submitted by Dr. James […]
By Joseph Odoi In a significant stride towards improving maternal healthcare outcomes, a recent study conducted by researchers has shown that an integrated intervention consisting of peer support, mobile phone messaging, and provision of mama kits at the household level is successful in increasing the proportion of facility-based births. This groundbreaking research comes at a […]
I am delighted to share with you the progress made by our team over the past year. The Program has been working diligently to strengthen the capacity of the Ugandan Government to implement a regionally centered and district-implemented HIV and TB program through innovation in health information systems, case-based surveillance, monitoring, evaluation, and quality improvement […]
The Department of Medical Biochemistry has state-of-the-art equipment that can help in analyzing a range of Biochemical Parameters. MakBRC (https://brc.mak.ac.ug/) supports our Laboratory management while the Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) is supported by the Laboratory Consortium (https://labconsortium.com). The Department of Biochemistry, through the Makerere Biomedical Research Center (Mak-BRC), The Uganda National Health Laboratory and […]
The Digital Health Payment Initiative and Research in Africa (DHPI-R), a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project that is implemented in Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) and Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) Senegal is thrilled to announce an OPEN CALL FOR REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This will foster widespread, sustainable adoption and application of Digital […]
Globally, economies and societal sectors have been negatively affected by COVID-19 pandemic and its associated containment measures. In Uganda, lockdowns were put in place especially in Kampala as a way of containing spreader events. Makerere University represented by the Urban Action Lab in the Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics and Climatic Sciences, College of Agricultural and […]
On Friday 1st April 2022, Makerere University convened a consultative meeting that brought on board staff from different units of the University to provide views that would further inform the ongoing process of developing the Counselling and Guidance Policy. The formulation of the Counselling and Guidance Policy is a key component of the research project […]
The Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) is pleased to announce a new short course on Costing and Pricing Health Services, the first in series of the economic evaluation course to be delivered virtually from 21st -23rd February 2022. The goal of this course is to equip policymakers, researchers, health managers and students with knowledge and practical […]