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USAID’s Agency For All Empowers SBC Practitioners, Researchers Through a Comprehensive Training Program
Agency for All, a five-year USAID project generating evidence on the role of agency in effective Social and Behavior Change (SBC) programming to improve health and well-being for individuals...
Poorly implemented COVID-19 incentives eroded health workers’ motivation in Africa- Study
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across Africa, it brought with it a wave of unprecedented challenges, impacting economies, social dynamics, and political structures. National healthcare systems were particularly strained,...
Ukraine’s Difficult Journey Towards Improving Universal Healthcare Coverage, Lessons for Uganda
Healthcare Trailblazer: Ulana Suprun, Former Acting Minister of Healthcare in Ukraine and Founder of Patriot Defence. Photo from UNIAN By John Okeya & Davidson Ndyabahika Across the world, the...
Commemorating the fruitful five-year partnership between MakSPH and WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) are celebrating five years of collaboration, during which they have successfully completed 46 projects, generating strategic information...
Minister Kaducu Calls for Cemented Partnerships to Promote Climate Resilience
Uganda’s Minister of State for Primary Education, Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu, also the Woman Member of Parliament for Moyo District, has called for cemented partnerships to combat climate change...
New Study Reveals Breastfeeding Mothers Embrace Nutrient-Rich Dish for Health Benefits
A study whose results were recently published in Food Science Nutrition, a peer-reviewed journal for rapid dissemination of research in all areas of food science and nutrition has revealed that...
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
