Makerere University School of Public Health

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About us

Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH): is a leading public health institution in Uganda and within the East and Central Africa region.

Founded in 1954 as a Department of Preventive Medicine, under the Faculty of Medicine, it became an Institute of Public Health in 1974 and was upgraded to the School of Public Health in 2007.

MakSPH is one of the four Schools under Makerere University’s College of Health Sciences. 

Academic programmes

Bachelor of Environmental Health Sciences (BEHS)
Masters in Health Informatics (MHI) .
Masters of Public Health
Masters Public Health Distance Education (MPHDE).
Master of Public Health Disaster Management
Masters of Health Services Research.

Research programmes

Supporting Operational AIDS Research (SOAR Project)
The Ugandan Academy for Health Innovation and Impact project.
Institutionalization of the HIV/AIDS Resource tracking in Uganda project
Scaling-up Packages of Interventions for Cardiovascular disease prevention in selected sites in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: An implementation research (SPICES Project) .
mHealth for TB-Tobacco: An approach to reduce tobacco use among TB patients .
MANEST (Innovations for increasing access to integrated safe delivery, PMTCT and new born care in rural Uganda).
Community Health Workers Project
Supporting Policy Engagement for Evidence-Based Decisions (SPEED) for Universal Health Coverage in Uganda .
ResilientAfrica Network (RAN)
Chlorhexidine Study
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