Stakeholders pledged to work together to address the growing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Uganda and beyond. The pledge was made at the NCDs Symposium held on Saturday 4th March 2023 and hosted by Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS), as a member of the Alliance of Research Universities in Africa (ARUA) NCD […]
The Child Health and Development Centre (CHDC) www.chdc.mak.ac.ug is a multi-disciplinary teaching and research unit at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine. The CHDC is part of a multi-country collaboration led by Oxford University, UK which has received funding from LEGO and OAK Foundations to implement a project titled, ‘Global Parenting Initiative (GPI)’. […]
By Jacinta Nakaye CoVAB’s science, research, and innovations shared facility, the Centre for Biosecurity and Global Health (CEBIGH) hosted a team from Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation together with a distinguished Professor, John B. Kaneene from Michigan State University on 10th May 2022 for an evaluation activity of its PRESIDE Projects. During a meeting […]
RUFORUM Webinar Series / Public Consultation On the working document of the African Union (AU) – European Union (EU) Innovation Agenda launched during the 6th EU-AU Summit in February. Thursday 5th May 2022 15-16:30hrs EAT Meeting Link The AU-EU Innovation Agenda is an ambitious unprecedented initiative aiming to translate Research & Innovation endeavours into tangible […]
The Executive Director, Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), Prof. Peter Lennie who is on a two-day fact-finding visit to Makerere has applauded the University’s impactful membership since she joined the network on 20th September 2020. Makerere has since joining WUN partnered on six successful applications, and is lead partner on one of them courtesy of the […]
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) approved the Project Request for the year 2021/2022 for the course entitled: Research Methods, Experimental Design and Data Analysis, in partnership with Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech), Virginia, USA represented by Dr. Patrick Pithua, BVM, MSc, PhD, DLSHTM, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine […]
I held an interesting conversation with Dr. Kremser Roswitha, Chargé d’Affaires of the Austrian Embassy. Austria is supporting research at Makerere to address challenges of climate change, public health and food security. We agreed to diversify our collaboration.