Call for Applications: The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford have established a Collaborative Bioethics Research and Training Program with support from the Wellcome Trust. Through this partnership, we have created joint post-doctoral training opportunities. We are pleased to invite applications from […]
The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana, with funding support from the Open Society Foundation, is calling for applications for post-doctoral fellowships as part of the Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA) Project. Focus of the fellowships For Phase 2 of GETSPA, the project has selected themes […]
Makerere University College of Health Sciences in collaboration with Duke University, USA are conducting a national collaborative research study on Epilepsy with local leading researchers in the fields of neurology and psychology in Uganda and international experts in the field of neurology and neurosurgery in the USA. The study aims to investigate the panorama of […]
Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Health EthicsFogarty African Bioethics Post-Doctoral Fellowship (FAB-PDF) Program Call for Applications The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (BI), Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) and University of Oxford Ethox Centre (Ethox) invite applications for the Fogarty African Bioethics Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program (FAB-PDF) – an 18-month advanced bioethics postdoctoral […]
Dr Tugume Patience, a Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology at the College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), Makerere University is one of the 28 women who have been granted the 2023 OWSD Early Career Fellowship. These scientists will receive up to USD50,000 to lead research projects and establish research groups at their home institutions […]
The Eastern Africa FAIMER Regional Institute (EAFRI) invites applications for the 2024 intake of participants. EAFRI will welcome its second class of Fellows on 30th July 2024. Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda, is the EAFRI host institution, and Mbarara University of Science and Technology Faculty of Medicine in Mbarara, Uganda, is […]
Makerere University in collaboration with the Uganda Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Children’s National Hospital, DC received funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty international Centre to implement the Impact Training Program. The goal of the program is to equip and nurture emerging research leaders and professional scholars in Uganda to […]
Clad in a coral red and black with green panels sewed into the front facings doctorate gown with emblems and ivory tower icons, Dr. Nicholus Nanyeenya can’t help, but, smile broadly as he fastens the long oblong sleeves. At last, his journey has come to an end, and he now holds a PhD. The vibrant […]
Dr. Caesar Jjingo, who is on a fellowship in the USA, was on September 29th and 30th sharing knowledge with other researchers during the South-East African Languages and Literature Forum at the University of Florida. In this forum which brought together African language practitioners – researchers, teachers and graduate students mainly from the USA, Dr. […]
On July 27, 2023, Charles Ssemugabo (cohort 9 fellow, Makerere University) received the Fogarty Global Health Fellowship under the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) GloCal Health Fellowship program as a postdoctoral trainee for the year 2023-2024. He will undertake a study to establish the correlation between environmental and biomonitoring exposure assessment to pesticides […]