Mbarara University of Science & Technology

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MUST-IUC Partnership- Call for PhD and MSc/MA Scholarship Applications 2022/2023

MUST UCOBS

The MUST-IUC UCoBS (University as a Facilitator for Community-Based Sustainable Solutions to Demographic Challenges in South-Western Uganda) seeks to support 09 PhD and 02 Masters candidates in various disciplines of environment; climate change and food production; renewable energy; sexual and reproductive health, and innovative business entrepreneurship for youth employability. Please read detailed Call for PhD […]

PHARMBIOTRAC Incubatees Training Workshop.

Mbarara University of Science and Technology, PHARMBIOTRAC Incubation Center in partnership with CamTech Uganda has yet admitted a new cohort II of incubatees totalling to 15 teams of start-up companies (that’s 15 new innovations). This adds to the already 15 teams of innovations that enrolled in cohort I last year doubling the number of innovations […]

Leadership and Management Skills enhancement in the Faculty of Medicine.

On 20th July 2022, the office of the Dean Faculty of Medicine organized a training session for all its heads of departments, administrators, committee chairpersons and their deputies where they were equipped with leadership and management skills. The facilitator of the day was former staff of MUST and Vice Chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University Prof: […]

Health Facility Leaders in South Western Uganda equipped with Leadership and Management Skills.

First Mile Community Health Program, a project under the Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) trained health Facility Leaders in-charges in leadership and management skills. The two-day Leadership and Management Continuing Medical Education (CME) was held in Mbarara city at the silverback hotel involving 20 health […]

First Mile 2.0 Ubuntu project for community outreach in Nakivaale Refugee Camp

Over 300 Refugees received free health services During Community Nursing led Multidisciplinary Placement Outreach programme under the first   mile project 2.0 Ubuntu Project The team was led by Dr. Grace Nambozi who acknowledged the support from the First mile Project 2.0, the University administration and the Office of the Dean Faculty of Medicine. These sponsored […]

RUFORUM Pledges Support towards Innovation Based Education to MUST

The Executive Secretary of Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Professor Adipala Ekwamu visited Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) to oversee the progress of the collaboration, the University has with RUFORUM. During his visit, Prof. Adipala met the University leaders that included: Deputy Vice Chancellor Prof.  Tushaboomwe-Kazoba, Faculty Deans, Directors […]

 MUST Commended for Community Engagement in all her programmes!

A delegation of 7 members from Western University and Joint Clinical Research centre visited Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) to strengthen the partnership in Science and Technology led research. The team from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) branded as Western University included Asst. Prof.  Abbas Jessani (UWO), Dr. Melanie Katsivo (Associate Director […]

Visiting Associate Professor Dr. Sheila Harms from McMaster University

Associate Professor Dr. Sheila Harms is a Training Director for Psychiatry at McMaster University in Hamilton Canada and an Honorary Associate Professor at MUST. Dr. Harms spearheads the partnership between McMaster University and MUST that is referred to as McMUST, based in the Department of Psychiatry since 2014. MCMUST led by Dr. Godfrey Zaari Rukundo […]

Visiting researcher Associate Professor Lynn T. Matthews, MD, MPH

Prof. Lynn Mathews

Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Heersink School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and Associate Director for Global Health Research and Partnerships for UAB Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health. Dr. Mathews works with, mentors, and supports MUST and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) faculty and trainees to use research methods to […]