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The Gardens at the College of Health Sciences (CHS), Mulago Campus, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda

Call for Applications: Leadership and Management in Global Health

Makerere University Lung Institute through its NIH funded Non-Communicable Diseases Research training program #D43TW011401 aims to develop capacity for researchers to lead and manage NCD research...

Job Advert: Program Officer Position - Uganda Data Driven Policy Initiative for Women’s Health, MakSPH.

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MakSPH Position: Program Officer – Uganda DDP for WH

Makerere University School of Public Health (Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences) in collaboration with Vital Strategies is looking for a Program Officer for an...

Some of the participants in the Virtual Safe and Dignified Burials Training organised by the GHS Programme, IDI, Makerere University sanitize as part of IPC on 14th July 2021.

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IDI GHS Conducts Safe & Dignified Burials Training

On Wednesday 14th July, 2021, the Global Health Security (GHS) Programme, Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) team held a virtual orientation for Safe and Dignified Burials Training....

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Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu: Innovator in Mental Health

By Udani Samarasekera Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu is a rising researcher and clinician doing innovative work in mental health and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a Senior...

U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Natalie E. Brown (2nd L) is received by Dr. Mwebesa Henry-Director General Health Services (L), Dr. Andrew Kambugu-IDI Executuve Director (R) and other officials from MoH, CDC and IDI upon arrival at Namboole COVID-19 Treatment Unit (CTU) on 9th July 2021. Photo credit: IDI

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IDI Supports Namboole CTU

Today, the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Natalie E. Brown visited the Namboole COVID-19 Treatment Unit (CTU) which was reactivated on 28th May 2021 to manage...

The President of the Republic of Uganda H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni flanked by the First Lady & Minister of Education and Sports Hon. Janet Kataaha Museveni inspect exhibitions at the WHS Regional Meeting Africa on 27th June 2021, Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala. Left is President WHS & M8 Alliance-Prof. Axel Pries, 2nd Left is German Ambassador to Uganda-H.E. Matthias Schauer, Right is WHO Country Representative to Uganda-Dr. Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam while 4th Right is the Vice Chancellor-Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe.

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Africa Must Step Up! Reflections from WHS Regional Meeting 2021

By Charles Ssemugabo and Rawlance Ndejjo The World Health Summit regional meeting in Kampala, Uganda (June 27-30), which was first slated to take place end of April 2020...

Professor Nelson K. Sewankambo, MBChB, MMed, MSc, FRCP, LLD (Hon), Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala Uganda. Photo Credit: Anthony Ngunjiri

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THRiVE Newsletter June 2021

Welcome to the June 2021 issue of THRiVE News, a publication of the THRiVE consortium. This is a time when Uganda and Kenya are struggling to...

L-R: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation, Prof. Charles Ibingira, International President World Health Summit 2021 and Prof. Tonny Oyana, Finance Chairperson World Health Summit Regional Meeting at the 2019 Edition, Kish Island, Iran.

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President to Open Munyonyo World Health Summit to Discuss Pandemic

The President of the Republic of Uganda, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will officially open the World Health Summit Regional Meeting Africa on Sunday 27th June 2021....

A male technician in one of the Research Labs at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University. Photo credit: Miriam Namutebi, Moses Nsubuga/New Vision

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Alliance for Global Health and Science 2021 Virtual Institute

The Alliance for Global Health and Science (the Alliance) is a partnership between the University of California, Berkeley and Makerere University. The Alliance seeks to make...

Guest of Honour & Minister of Health-Hon. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng (C), flanked by Chancellor-Prof. Ezra Suruma (4th R), Chairperson Council-Eng. Dr. Charles Wana-Etyem (4th L), Vice Chancellor-Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe (3rd L), Chairperson BoT, SAIU-H.E. King Caesar Augustus Mulenga (3rd R), Principal CHS-Dr. Charles Ibingira (2nd R), Book Author-Mr. Nelson Twinamasiko with other officials and delegates at the First International NCD Symposium official opening, 12th February 2018, Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala.

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Call for Applications: MakNCD Non-Degree Research Support

The Makerere University Non-Communicable Disease (MAK-NCD) Research Training Program, funded by the United States National Institute of Health-Fogarty international centre is a collaboration between Makerere University...