By Davidson Ndyabahika, Johanna Blomgren and Julius T. Mugaga Experts have urged urgent action to mitigate the health risks of climate change. The 2023 global conversation, on Climate Change and Health highlighted the need for transformational action in every sector to protect people’s health from climate change. Held on September 5, 2023 the virtual seminar, […]
Fred Ssewamala, the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School and Director of the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD), along with colleagues Byron Powell, Co-Director of the Brown School’s Center for Mental Health Services Research, at Washington University in St. Louis, Noeline Nakasujja from Makerere University, and colleagues at ICHAD have been awarded $3.5 million from the National […]
The Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support (METS) Program is a 5-year CDC-supported collaboration of Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH), the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Health Information Systems Program (HISP Uganda). Highlights of the METS August 2023 Newsletter View on METS
By Agnes Namaganda The Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health in the US has awarded Dr Anthony Batte with a 500,000 USD grant. This career development award for emerging global leaders is called a K43 NIH award. Dr. Batte is a young prolific researcher as well as a Paediatric Nephrologist, and a […]
A Hearing Clinic and Temporal Bone Laboratory were launched on 15th August 2023 at the Makerere University Hospital (MakHosp). The clinic and laboratory are operated by the Department of Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT), Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS). The clinic which is the first to be […]
By Joseph Odoi Globally, an estimated 462 million individuals are affected by type 2 diabetes, corresponding to 6.28% of the world’s population. In high-income regions like Europe, of all persons with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), 39.3% are undiagnosed. Low-income countries in Africa have the highest prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes, estimated at 66.7%. In Uganda […]
The impact program is soliciting applications for Cohort 3, 3.5 year PhD scholarships tenable at Makerere University. Makerere University in collaboration with the Uganda Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Children’s National Hospital received funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Centre to implement the Impact Training Program. The goal of […]
The Global Research Nurses (GRN) and the Global Health Network are inviting nurses and midwives interested to a one-day workshop on Grant Writing in Research for Nurses and Midwives in Africa. This workshop is designed to equip nurses with skills in grant writing for research purposes. The workshop details are below Date: 30th September 2023Time: 8:00 AM–4:00 […]
The Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support (METS) Program is a 5-year CDC-supported collaboration of Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH), the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Health Information Systems Program (HISP Uganda). Highlights of the METS July 2023 Newsletter View on METS
We are delighted to announce two exceptional opportunities under the “Digital Mobile Technologies to Study Tuberculosis”: A Multi-Disciplinary training program sponsored by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA. This program is organized in collaboration with The University of Georgia, College of Public Health and the Global Health Institute in Athens, Georgia, United […]