The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (CHS) Heath Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI-SHSSU) in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University on 27th January 2022 held a Virtual Guest Lecture on the topic “Parkinson’s Disease – More than just a movement disorder”. The Lecture was delivered by Greg Pontone, the Director, Parkinson’s Disease Neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University […]
Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH), Ministry of Health – Uganda, and Mukono and Buikwe districts in collaboration with: University of Antwerp, Belgium; Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom; Brighton and Sussex University, United Kingdom; Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire De Brest; and University of Limpopo, South Africa are organising the Global South-North Collaboration Scientific […]
There is a lot of craze with doing and doing. As the year begins we all have fresh goals greatly enthusiastic about fulfilling by the close of 2022. In addition, we carry along with us past behaviours that are stressful though they seem enjoyable as we do them like being overly glued to social media. […]
Greetings from the HEPI-SHSSU project. We are delighted to present to you the Fifth Edition of the HEPI Newsletter. We are in the fourth year of HEPI Project implementation, and we have had great accomplishments in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. The articles reflect what has happened during the last four years. The Scientific Conference […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), hereby announces the fiscal year 2022-2023 funding opportunities for organizations to provide technical assistance and direct service delivery for HIV epidemic control. The five-year ‘Accelerating Epidemic Control’ Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) particularly cover […]
The Makerere University School of Public Health Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support (MakSPH-METS) Program is a five-year (2020-2025) CDC-funded Cooperative Agreement. The MakSPH-METS program emerged out of the growing recognition of the importance of evidence-based decision making for an AIDS Free Generation in Uganda. The overall purpose of the Program is to establish coordinated and […]
Project Title Quit4Life+: Adapting and Evaluating a Phone-Based Tobacco Use Cessation Program for People Living with HIV in Uganda and Zambia Introduction The Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa is open for applications from suitably qualified candidates to coordinate a 5-years study in the field of HIV, tobacco use cessation and mHealth. The project targets […]
The end of 2021 is here and yet it feels like the year started yesterday. That is a reminder that though time is an everpresent resource, it is an irreplaceable perishable good. Within the limits of what is humanly possible we should complete the work that should be completed today. We should embrace 2022 with […]
A team of students led by Ms. Anna Maria Gwokyalya – 4th year student of Medicine and Surgery at the College of Health Sciences (MakCHS), Makerere University won the award of ‘Student Innovation of the Year’ at the Heroes in Health Awards (HIHA) held on the 12th November, 2021. Her innovation was a book “The […]