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Health Literacy Key to Refugee Women’s Reproductive Care, Study Finds
A new policy brief from Makerere University calls for clearer communication, stronger family planning education, and literacy-sensitive programming to increase reproductive health service use among South Sudanese refugee women...
Makerere, Karolinska Reflect on 25 Years, Encourage University Research Equality
STOCKHOLM — Makerere University and Karolinska Institutet (KI-Mak) marked 25 years of collaboration on Oct. 15, 2025, with a hybrid forum on research equity, highlighting lessons for universities striving...
Refugee Health Journalism as Empowerment: Why Accuracy, Dignity & Context Matter
In July this year, I joined a study tour to Imvepi Refugee Settlement in Uganda’s West Nile region under the RISK-WASH Project, led by Dr. Richard Mugambe. Established in...
MakSPH, TalTech Partner to Shape the Future of Digital Health in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda – Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) and Estonia’s Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) have launched a two-year collaborative project to transform health informatics education and...
Digital Payments Boost Vaccination Campaign Efficiency in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda —Supporting districts to adopt digital payments can significantly improve the efficiency of mass vaccination campaigns in Uganda, even if the gains do not directly translate into higher...
When Children Can’t Sleep: Study Links Early Smoke Exposure to Sleep Problems in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda —Early exposure to secondhand smoke from tobacco or marijuana may significantly increase a child’s risk of sleep problems, according to a new study from Makerere University School...
Core Functions
Health Training
Our approach to teaching is hands-on to ensure acquisition of competencies that are relevant to the market and to deliver services to the various communities.
Research
Our research projects have grown from 40 just under a decade ago to 114 as at the end of the 2016/2017 academic year.
Service Delivery
We participate in disease outbreak investigations, disaster management and implementation research in health facilities and communities across Uganda and Africa.
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
Masters in Health Informatics (MHI)
Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) jointly with the College of Computing and Information Sciences -Makerere (CoCIS) most especially the School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT) are offering a Masters degree in Health Informatics (MHI) as a fulltime program. The program is designed for individuals who desire to be trained to identify constraints in health information flow and design innovative automated systems to solve them in the shortest time possible to aide timely decision making
