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Inside Uganda’s National Health Adaptation Plan to Combat Climate Change
By John Okeya On August 22, 2024, Uganda made history as the first African nation to launch a National Health Adaptation Plan (H-NAP), fulfilling the country’s global commitments at...
Responsive Culture, Partnerships, and Research Ethics Emphasized at CARTA’s APAS Workshop in Kampala
KAMPALA—Researchers in African Universities have been urged to cultivate a Responsive Culture, create, maintain, and strengthen collaborations, and uphold Research Ethics. In the CARTA programme, Participants explore the requirements...
NTU-Mak Partnership Strengthens Antimicrobial Stewardship in Nakaseke, Butambala Districts in Central Uganda
By Carol Esther Nabbanja and Michael Obeng Brown The Nottingham Trent University and Makerere University (NTU-Mak) Partnership has intensified efforts to strengthen antimicrobial stewardship in Nakaseke and Butambala, tackling the growing...
Makerere Trains Policy Analysts, M&E Specialists to Assess Government Programme Impact
By Okeya John & Davidson Ndyabahika Mr. Godfrey Mugisa Masereka, a participant in the three-day transformative training in Impact Evaluation and the Manager Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation at the National Agriculture Advisory...
New Study Recommends Increasing HPV Screening to Prevent High Cervical Cancer Prevalence in Uganda
By Okeya John and Davidson Dyabahika In Uganda, just like across the globe, cervical cancer remains a significant matter of grave public health concern. Locally, the disease is heightened...
Early Cervical Cancer-Causing HPV Virus Detection Key to Lowering Prevalence Among Women Living with HIV in Ugandan
Photo by WHO Uganda Office Researchers in Uganda are concerned about high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infections in HIV-positive women, emphasizing that early screening during standard HIV care can reduce...
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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
