Health

Applications are invited for equipment grants: up to a maximum of £10,000, to support health research conducted by staff or students of THRiVE institutions in Africa (i.e. Gulu University, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Makerere University, National University of Rwanda, National Institute of Medical Research - Mwanza,

Does your child incessantly complain about general body pain especially around the neck, shoulders, upper and lower back regions? Then it is about time you examined the contents of his/her school bag.

The Department of Orthopaedics at Makerere University College of Health Sciences with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency, and working with other partners piloted the Ponseti non-surgical club foot treatment under the Uganda Sustainable Clubfoot Care Project.

The Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)/Institute of Tropical Medicine – Antwerp (ITM-A) Institutional Collaboration has received a grant

Global Health Corps is searching for the world's most promising young leaders from a wide range of sectors and backgrounds.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will invest US $35 million in grants to expand the pipeline of groundbreaking ideas that can help women and children live more prosperous and healthy lives.

Makerere University under the umbrella organization of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) has embarked on a new project aimed at producing drugs to alleviate HIV/AIDS in East Africa.

Professor David M. Serwadda is one of the five foreign associates announced for election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in conjunction with its 41st annual meeting on held on 17th October 2011.

Stellenbosch University is planning to offer two new academic teaching programmes at the Centre for Public Mental Health (CPMH) from January 2012:
 a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Mental Health,
 a MPhil in Public Mental Health

These distance learning courses are the first of their kind on the African continent. The Centre is a
joint initiative of the Department of Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch and the Department
of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town. The two departments have
established the Centre as an independent, inter-disciplinary academic research and teaching centre
for public mental health promotion and service development in Africa. This is in recognition of the
need to prioritise mental health on the public health agenda; to develop professional mental health
capacity; and to develop policy, service and legislative frameworks to scale up systems of mental
health care in Africa.

The establishment of this Centre has been strongly supported by the WHO Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse in Geneva, the WHO African Regional office in Brazzaville, and a
number of national and international experts in the field.

Stellenbosch would like to gauge the level of interest in the courses, Kindly fill in the form (See downloads for details) and return to ereshia@sun.ac.za, by 3 June 2011.

Downloads

New Courses Announcement: pdf, postscript

CPMH Brochure: pdf, postscript

CPMH Postgraduate Diploma in Public Mental Health: pdf, postscript

CPMH MPhil in Public Mental Health: pdf, postscript

CPMH Course Interest Form: doc, pdf, postscript

The Child Health and Development Centre of the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, received a grant from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strengthen research capacity in Uganda. The project Quality Medicine Use for Children in Uganda is a 5- year multi-disciplinary collaboration that is devoted to improving the quality of medicine use and management for children in Uganda through research and research training.

Within the collaboration, there is one scholarship for Masters Degree in social sciences and one for Masters in Public Health (Health Policy, Planning and Management).

Applications are invited for the academic year 2011/2012 from suitably qualified Ugandans for these scholarships at Makerere University

Applicants should be currently working, with at least 2 years of relevant experience in health services or health research institution.

Application Procedures:
Enrolment in a relevant Masters training program at Makerere University must be for the academic year 2011/2012. Candidates must submit their written application together with: -

1. An up-to- date curriculum vitae
2. ......

Interested applicants should consult the project website - http://childmed.ku.dk for details on the description and the sub-studies.

Application must be submitted no later than 17 June 2011. See Downloads below to view the detailed announcements

Downloads

Makerere CHDC-Copenhagen Masters in Social Sciences: MS Word Version, PDF Version, Postscript Version

Makerere CHDC-Copenhagen Masters in Public Health: MS Word Version, PDF Version, Postscript Version

The Coordinator, ChildMed Project
Child Health and Development Centre
PO Box 6717 Kampala, Old Mulago next to Ward 16
jjitta@chdc.mak.ac.ug