Carol Esther Nabbanja, 22, is set to graduate with First Class Honours in Bachelor of Environmental Health Science (BEHS) from the Makerere School of Public Health as the best-graduating student in the school this year. She graduates in Makerere University‘s 73rd Graduation ceremony today. With a CGPA of 4.61, she has emerged as the best-graduating student […]
The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) will host the NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCD) SYMPOSIUM 2023. Date: 4th March 2023 Time: 9:00am to 6:00pm Objective: Provide a forum for dissemination of advances in different NCDs with regard to training and research and their impact on community in Uganda and East Africa. Theme: Advances in NCD […]
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 program is to equip and nurture emerging research leaders andprofessional scholars in Uganda to generate high-quality […]
By Agnes Namaganda On July 22nd 2022, Makerere University–Child Health and Development Centre (Mak–CHDC) launched a draft manual for the National Parenting Standards. The Centre has been working together with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) with funding from UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund), to develop standards that are agreeable to […]
The College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (CoVAB) conducted a dissemination and stakeholder consultation workshop following a successful completion of phase I of the research on Paratuberculosis funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The study was conducted in partnership with the Universities of Goettingen and Leipzig, in Germany and partners from the […]
By George Kisetedde On 3rd August, 2022, the CHDC (Child Health and Development Centre) disseminated study findings from one of the research studies carried out at the centre. These findings were presented under the title,“The Prevention of Violence against Children and Women: Baseline and Implementation Science Results from Parenting Cluster Randomised Trial.” Moderated by Dr. […]
It’s with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Golden Jubilee edition of this phenomenal journal. Yes, The Makerere Medical Journal marks 50 years of publication with this year’s edition and all this has been made possible by the endless efforts and contributions of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences Staff and students […]
When Prof. Serwadda travelled to universities in the USA and other countries in the 1980s, he realised that students struggled to buy books in those countries. “They work in restaurants to be able to buy books and then I said oh My God, we were so privileged,” he says. When Prof. David M. Serwadda joined […]
By Ninsiima Racheal By nurturing women in science, the Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (THRiVE) consortium has powerfully shown young women that Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is for them. These women scientists are now everywhere you look. The video shared below chronicles the groundswell of female scientists who are […]
ACHIEVE provides trainees with dissemination and implementation (D&I) and data science research skills and knowledge through experiential learning, mentoring, and “hands-on” immersion in global health implementation and data science research and methodologies. ACHIEVE is a consortium of ten institutions: Washington University in St. Louis, Boston College, New York University, University of Illinois Chicago, University of […]