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Ugandan Study Flags Girls and Senior Students as a Mental Health High-Risk Group
Based on research led by Max Bobholz and colleagues from Makerere University in Uganda, Essentia Institute of Rural Health, and the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States....
Makerere Hailed for Its Leadership in Health Policy and Knowledge Systems
Dean Prof. Rhoda Wanyenze highlighted MakSPH’s deep policy engagement, with 80% of staff serving on national and global technical committees. She urged researchers in East African Universities to ensure...
Makerere rolls out RIMS to streamline graduate research monitoring
A smarter way to track scholars July 1st, 2025 | Kampala — Makerere University is on a listening tour. The University’s Directorate of Graduate Training (DGT) and Directorate for...
MakSPH, DJC Launch Short Course on Health Communication
The intensive one-month course, running for the first time from June 5 to July 24, 2025, is jointly offered by Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)’s Department of...
MakSPH Supports Uganda’s Final Push to End HIV with Locally Led Surveillance
In a decisive step toward ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030, Uganda on Thursday, May 29, 2025, officially launched the third Uganda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment...
MakSPH Champions Leadership Boost for Wakiso Health Managers
On April 23, 2025, Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) convened district leaders, health managers, and project partners to disseminate the outcomes of a major leadership and management strengthening initiative...
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
