Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) students and staff have returned from Nottingham Trent University (NTU) under an exchange programme called the “Erasmus + Mobility Programme”. Dr. David Musoke, the Programme Co-ordinator at MakSPH shared that 2 students (Bachelor of Environmental Health Sciences) and 2 Masters’ students of Public Health visited NTU. They learnt new skills to enhance their research capacity. This involved attending writing workshops, networking, blogging tutorials, managing large documents, power point presentations, Mental Health Insights and making presentations about health.
He revealed plans to scale up the partnership so that more students and staff, participate in the Exchange programme through sharing academic information and materials, participating in joint research activities and publications, and participating in conferences and seminars.
In her remarks, Prof. Rhoda Wanyenze the Dean, MakSPH, thanked the NTU team for the willingness to partner with MakSPH in promoting research. She called for sustainability of the partnership and advised the students to pass on the skills that they learnt like blogging.
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